Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:53:23 +0100 (CET) From: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UFS partitioning Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812021141140.4787@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <20081202111740.96805018.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812021048180.3801@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> <20081202111740.96805018.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Polytropon wrote: > ad0 |-----------------------------------------------| the whole disk > ad0s1 \----------------------------------------------/ one slice > ad0s1X \--/\---/\-----/\-----/\-------/\------------/ partitions > a b d e f g > / swap /tmp /var /usr /home mount point OK this is clear.. >> a / 1Gb, >> b swap, >> d /root 20 Gb, (a /root partition is from an example of someone who >> claims that at boot FreeBSD checks the partions in background except >> for the / partition, by keeping / as small as possible, the time to >> boot can be mimimized .. correct? but will /root ever be something >> big ??) > > No no, / refers to "the root partition". One way of setting > up partitions is just to have one partition (one root parttion) > and put everything on it, including /tmp, /var, /usr and /home. I know / is the "root partition", but /root is the home-directory of the user root (/etc/passwd: root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh). I doubt this will ever be needed to be large? If its not large fsck neither will spend much time in it. So I guess it's just safe not to make this a separate BSD-partiton ? > Another philosophy is to create partitions designated to their > further use, just as I mentioned it above. Yes, but it's hard to find out what is best... I'm constantly swinged between the one (/ including /tmp /var /usr) and the other (all separate) option ... >> this leaves 2420 Gb which is more than 2 Tb, so you can't put all >> that in 1 filesystem h /home, you will need to split that in 2 >> BSD-paritions, but since you can't have more that 8 BSD-partitions >> (highest BSD-partition letter is h), you need to give up at least >> one of d, e, f, g. ... correct or not (then what)? > > I quite doubt that FreeBSD's UFS 2 cannot handle a 2 TB partition > as a whole, but because I don't have sch large disks with UFS > (I have ZFS for them), I cannot tell. Anyone else can tell?
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