From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 10:53:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8557F106564A for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:53:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be) Received: from hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be (hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be [143.129.75.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFC58FC1D for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:53:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be) Received: from hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mB2ArNMF005854; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:53:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (pdon@localhost) by hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id mB2ArNkx005851; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:53:23 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be: pdon owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:53:23 +0100 (CET) From: Pieter Donche X-X-Sender: pdon@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be To: Polytropon In-Reply-To: <20081202111740.96805018.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <20081202111740.96805018.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: UFS partitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Pieter Donche List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:53:37 -0000 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?