Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:57:43 -0400 From: "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@ipass.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to partition my hard drives. Message-ID: <370F9116.7BA9962A@ipass.net> References: <370E7816.2D6F3285@ipass.net> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091640540.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <19990410101856.A2142@lemis.com> <19990410074630.23423.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <19990410175648.M2142@lemis.com>
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well, I am a little confused. I have read somewhere we need to make certain directories their own partition. Now your saying make just one big partition? Can you explain a little bit more why this is better? Thanks Michael Mercer mmercer@ipass.net Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Saturday, 10 April 1999 at 17:46:29 +1000, Greg Black wrote: > > Greg Lehey writes: > > > >>>> 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), > >> > >> I'd suggest that's overly generous. In the future, debug kernels may > >> become the norm, so it's probably reasonable to make / 60 or 70 MB. > > > > Does this advice mean you've backed away from the idea of > > running a single big / partition with all the OS stuff on it, or > > have I misunderstood what you were recommending previously? > > No, I have always said that I would make an exception in the case of > the root file system, but with relatively small disks (<= 1 GB) it > might make more sense to just have one partition for both. > > >>> 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. > >> > >> Put a swap partition on each drive (128 MB on each) and make the rest > >> of each drive a single file system. If I were doing this, I'd call > >> the second file system on the first disk /usr, and the file system on > >> the second disk /home. > > > > The way I would do this would be to put a 256 MB swap on each > > drive (unless you have more than 256 MB of memory, in which case > > I'd make each swap partition physical memory + 2 MB), and leave > > the rest of the drive as a single partition, with / (and all the > > OS stuff) on the first disk and /home (or whatever you want to > > call it) on the second. > > I don't think you need that much swap, but it always pays to err on > the side of generosity. A good point about the size of physical > memory, though: at least one swap partition should be that big, > because otherwise you can't take crash dumps. > > > If I had that size disks and I was using backup media that could > > not manage a level 0 dump of that size and I was in a situation > > where regular level 0 dumps were important, I'd make partition > > sizes suit my backup media -- but I'm not much of a believer in > > regular level 0 dumps, so I might not make such a decision even > > then. > > Again, a good point. > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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