Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 15:05:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Partitioning large disk for news... Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961220145743.4809A-100000@bheema.worldbank.org>
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Hey all - I'm getting ready to install a Pro200 running FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 as our news server here at the World Bank, and have the following questions: 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). 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 so, I'm thinking maybe I can use the ccd driver to serially concatenate 5 partitions on the disk together for use as one large news spool. Which of these options is likely to cause the least amount of headache for me? Thanks for any info - and please respond directly to me, if possible, since I am not subscribed to the lists (I get too much mail already...). Unrelated note: I recently had all sorts of trouble trying to get the BSDI version of Netscape 3.0 running on my 2.1.6.1 box. Turns out I had commented out the 'options "COMPAT_43"' line in my kernel conf file, and for some reason, BSDI (and Linux) compatibility won't work without it. Perhaps there should be mention of this in LINT. Thanks! -------------------------------------------------------------------- \||/_ Alok K. Dhir Phone: +1.202.473.2446 oo \ R7-003, ITSMC Email: adhir@worldbank.org L_ The World Bank Group Washington, DC \/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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