Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:27:57 +1100 From: Rob B <rbyrnes@mailshack.com> To: "William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation and similar issues with 5.3 Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20050109002312.02c96aa8@mail.nerdshack.com> In-Reply-To: <113C217E-60D3-11D9-8564-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> References: <200501031101.j03B1wtR006075@freefall.freebsd.org> <D009527A-6001-11D9-9997-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> <20050106182644.GA57934@freebie.xs4all.nl> <05847D56-604E-11D9-8A59-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> <20050107160308.GA63225@freebie.xs4all.nl> <113C217E-60D3-11D9-8564-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org>
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At 04:39 AM 8/01/2005, William H. Magill wrote: >The one thing which I have noticed, however, is that that there is nothing I >have been able to find which recommends partition sizes, especially for >various >disk geometries. As I recall, there were quite a number of "unused sector" >(or something like that) messages during the initialization. > >The partition sizes I picked wound up with only 39% used for / but 70% >used for /usr, and 2% for /var. With a 9 gig drive: > > xp1> sudo disklabel da0 ># /dev/da0: >8 partitions: ># size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 262144 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16392 > b: 2097152 262144 swap > c: 17773524 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, > don't edit > d: 409600 2359296 4.2BSD 2048 16384 25608 > e: 4194304 2768896 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 > f: 10810324 6963200 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 >Where: >a= / >b= swap >d= /var >e= /usr >f= /local0 > >I think I used A- 100 meg B- 2 gig D- 400 meg E-4 gig F- rest. >(I did use the "meg" and "gig" terms in the initilaization) You'll want a /home partition, or symlink /home to somewhere with more space (like /local0) cheers, Rob -- The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. This is random quote 1053 of 1264. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5
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