Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:25:49 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, gjb@comkey.com.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk partition sizes (was: Debug kernel by default (was: System size with -g)) Message-ID: <19990407032548.E4453@marder-1.localhost> In-Reply-To: <19990407113649.X2142@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:36:49AM %2B0930 References: <19990407082416.H2142@lemis.com> <199904062311.QAA96785@bubba.whistle.com> <19990407084453.L2142@lemis.com> <19990407014706.X1360@marder-1.localhost> <19990407104608.T2142@lemis.com> <19990407024705.A4453@marder-1.localhost> <19990407113649.X2142@lemis.com>
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On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:36:49AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 2:47:05 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 10:46:08AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 1:47:06 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday, 6 April 1999 at 16:11:24 -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> >>>> Greg Lehey writes:
> >>> My new HD arrives tomorrow so I'm going to do a fresh install
> >>> (FreeBSD will be spread over the 2 disks).
> >>
> >> Sounds reasonable. Three file systems and 256 MB swap?
> >>
> >
> > I plan (since your answer above) a 64MB /, 32MB /var, 256 MB swap
> > on the first disk and 3.8GB /usr on the second disk (I need the
> > other ~700MB to save my existing /usr stuff, easier than restoring from
> > the tape backup).
> >
> > Does that seem a reasonable setup to you?
>
> This would only work if your existing /usr is already there; otherwise
> it would be more difficult putting it there than backing up to tape.
It is. At the moment my whole FreeBSD system is sandwiched between
a FAT and an NTFS on the single disk. I want to keep at least / on
the first HD so I can boot it from the NT boot menu.
I'm planning to add the second HD, create 2 slices (3.8GB & ~700MB),
mount the latter on /mnt, copy everything I want (/etc and the /usr
stuff), then delete the existing FreeBSD slice on the first HD,
re-size the FAT and NTFS, leaving a 352MB hole (64 + 32 + 256) and
then re-install FreeBSD using the "full sources, binaries and docs"
distribution.
This is the size of the /usr stuff that I want to save. You can
see why I don't want to restore it from tape (and yes, I have made
a full system backup to DAT).
marder-1:/usr/marko{53}% ls -R | wc -l
29599
marder-1:/usr/marko{55}% du -Ls
569775 .
> What are you going to do with the 700 MB when the changeover is
> finished?
>
Just leave it unused until I need it.
> If I were using this space, I'd keep /usr on the rest of the first
> disk and make the second disk /home. Put /var as a symlink to
> wherever you anticipate having more space.
>
> Don't expect /var to remain small. I don't think of my /var hierarchy
> as being large, but:
>
> $ BLOCKSIZE=K du -Ls /var
> 1094308 /var
>
1GB :-O. I take it most of this is actually on /usr or /home?
> Greg
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