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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 12:35:19 -0700
From:      David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        leegold <goldtech@worldpost.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: partitions
Message-ID:  <39259777.261A9316@acuson.com>
References:  <000501bfc1bb$0621d970$b2e47ad1@leegold1>

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leegold wrote:

>  But what about the partition  ( SLICES) scheme? -
>  -   # of partions needed,
>  -   size of each partition

It is easiest to let freebsd do it for you. After creating a partition,
the installation moves on to the "naming and slicing" screen. If you
choose the bsd partition, then type "a", it will automatically create
slices for you. IIRC, this will be 20M for /, 2xMem for swap, 50M for
/var and the rest for /usr.

Remember that the automatic slicing is not an all or nothing affair. You
can manually create a 100M slice for /, then have the installation
automatically create the rest. Or automatically create the defaults,
delete the last (/usr) slice, add in another slice of your choosing
(/usr/local), then automatically recreate /usr in the remainder. It's
quite flexible.

-- 
David Johnson...


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