From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 21 22:06:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 513FC16A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:06:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fep6.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44BE43D58 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:06:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from [24.150.215.98] (d150-215-98.home.cgocable.net [24.150.215.98]) by fep6.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E2A7C6; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:06:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41A1115D.1010108@cogeco.ca> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:06:21 -0500 From: Brian Bobowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Thunderbird/0.7.1 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dude Dude References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two hdd partitation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:06:16 -0000 Dude Dude wrote: > hey, i will install tomorrow freebsd in a machine with two hdd > (60+80GB), and i would like to use freebsd on both, what should i do? > > During installation put /usr under onde disk, and all the other stuff > in the other? will these work? > > thank u You may want to consider putting some swap space on both drives, because this will allow for (relatively) simultaneous access, and should speed up swap performance. Other than that, the only difference should be that you have two drives to select from when creating your FreeBSD slices, and will thus have two slices when it comes to actually making partitions and assigning mount points. -BB