From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 16:44:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1091514F for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18706; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:42:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:42:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Michael E. Mercer" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to partition my hard drives. In-Reply-To: <370E7816.2D6F3285@ipass.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Michael E. Mercer wrote: > Hello all, > > I am excited, I will be getting a dual pentium 450 machine, > with 2 8G hard drives. I would like some advice as to how I should > partition the 2 drives. However you want. :-) I would suggest a separate / (~200MB or so), then make the rest giant partitions. If you want to have shared space for NFSing or to make backups easier, you can hip it up into chunks. > ps: I asked earlier, however I hastily removed my new mail, > without checking for comments. I use ppp -ddial to connect to > my ISP. Is there an easy way to find out what IP address they > assigned to me is, without going into pppctl and doing show ipcp? ifconfig tun0 will tell you. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message