From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 16 10:29:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239D037B41A; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:29:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBGITXa07743; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:29:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBGITWM70307; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:29:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200112161829.fBGITWM70307@harmony.village.org> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:16:20 MST." <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com> References: <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:29:32 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200112161616.fBGGGKg49403@aslan.scsiguy.com> "Justin T. Gibbs" writes: : Has the requirement for the root partition being first in the disklabel : been removed? I prefer to have my swap partition as close to the front : of the disk as possible to take advantage of the faster tracks. If / : needs to come before swap, and / is *huge*, swap gets slower. Yes. This requirement has been removed. I have: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 307200 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 -19*) b: 1126400 307200 swap # (Cyl. 19*-89*) c: 30266460 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -1883) e: 4194304 1433600 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 89*-350*) f: 12582912 5627904 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 350*-1133*) g: 12055644 18210816 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1133*-1883*) My -stable system is on partitions a and e (eg / and /usr), but my -current system is on partition f... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message