From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 6 19:30:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AC71572C for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 10Ui4W-0001dw-0K; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:28:09 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id DAA00811; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:27:37 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id DAA04706; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:25:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:25:49 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Lehey Cc: Archie Cobbs , 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> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990407113649.X2142@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:36:49AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message