From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 8 13:28:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6E416A4CE for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:28:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.nerdshack.com (mail.nerdshack.com [206.123.69.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB9C43D49 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:28:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rbyrnes@mailshack.com) Received: from cartman.mailshack.com (dialup-11.89.221.203.acc50-kent-syd.comindico.com.au [203.221.89.11]) by mail.nerdshack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B0F8BC011; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 07:28:27 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20050109002312.02c96aa8@mail.nerdshack.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:27:57 +1100 To: "William H. Magill" From: Rob B In-Reply-To: <113C217E-60D3-11D9-8564-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> References: <200501031101.j03B1wtR006075@freefall.freebsd.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation and similar issues with 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 13:28:39 -0000 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