From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 20 16:42:04 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA17480 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:42:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA17473 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:41:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA16436; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 01:41:44 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id BAA22302; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 01:41:31 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.4/keltia-uucp-2.9) id BAA04501; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 01:36:37 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 01:36:36 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: adhir@worldbank.org Subject: Re: Partitioning large disk for news... References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.54 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2830 In-Reply-To: ; from Alok K. Dhir on Dec 20, 1996 15:05:36 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Alok K. Dhir: > I have a Seagate 9 gig disk to use as the news spool, and I'm wondering > what the best way to use it will be (the / and /usr partitions are on a > separate 2 gig disk). If you're serious about that news business, ditch the 9 GB drive and get four 4 GB drives or 2 4 GB. They will perform better than one single drive. > I remember in the past (way back in the 1.1.5.1 - 2.0 days) there was some > trouble with partitions larger than 2 gigs. Is this still the case? If Not, it disappeared after the switch to 4.4BSD. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #32: Thu Dec 19 20:47:10 CET 1996