From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 10:59:30 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 6EE9F1557A for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:59:13 -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 KAA21644; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:56:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:56:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Michael E. Mercer" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to partition my hard drives. In-Reply-To: <19990410101856.A2142@lemis.com> 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 Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 9 April 1999 at 16:42:27 -0700, Doug White wrote: > > 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), > > 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. I always run out of room on /tmp, so I like to be liberal. :-) (Until I set up the MFS, that is.) 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