From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 18:57:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.weeble.dyndns.org (ubppp233-9.dialin.buffalo.edu [128.205.233.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF05415B03 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 18:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) Received: from shithead (cjm2@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org [10.0.0.2]) by cartman.weeble.dyndns.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA09975 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 21:57:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjm2@earthling.net) From: "Christopher J. Michaels" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" Subject: Upgrading to 3.2 and vinum... Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:57:10 -0400 Message-ID: <001201bea8ad$65d4b540$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (sorry about that last message, I doubt it came across right) Hello, This is my plan for upgrading, I would greatly appreciate any feed back at all. Currently I have a FreeBSD 2.2.8 machine acting as a server/gateway for my small home network. It runs ipfw, ppp -alias, samba, squid, dhcp, etc... It also has 3 drives in it. What I would like to do is upgrade to 3.2-STABLE. From what I've read going from 2.2.8 to 3.x isn't exactly a picnic so I was going to backup what I need, wipe the whole system clean, and start from scratch. Restoring what I need along the way. Now, a thought came to me. Take the 3 disks (6.4 GB, 5 GB, and 10.2 GB) and concatenate them with vinum. This would make for much less of a headache since I would have one big /usr, and from what I understand would increase drive performance. Ok, enough of the background. My question(s) are, 1 is this a good idea? and 2 how would I implement this, wouldn't I have to install a /usr/ partition before I even had the chance to implement vinum? Any input, the more the better would be appreciated. Thanks. -Chris "f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng." P.S. Please CC: me as I'm not subscribed to the list at this address. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message