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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Hard Disk configuration
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Iwan L. Wirawan wrote:

> I need some information on 
> - how partitions and slices work for Hard disk on FreeBSD, about how to
>   make a correct entry on disktab for configuring additional hard disk.

In fact, you do not ever need to use disktab.  See below.

> - how to calculate the need of swap partition (or slice?) (depend
>   on phisical memory perhaps?)

I think the starting benchmark is 2xmemory, but if you are running
Xwindows start at 50mb and go up from there.  With 32MB of RAM I have a
100MB swap that could be 50MB since I only use 13% of it at a time. ;)

I suggest consulting http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html, my
disk creation documentation.  Hope this helps.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major