From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 13 19:05:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F7A49E for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:05:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E1D8FC12 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-110-131.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.110.131]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE01924750; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:05:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q9DJ5DrT001933; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:05:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:05:13 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Jos Chrispijn Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2) Message-Id: <20121013210513.80676821.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5079ABFA.8050607@webrz.net> References: <5079ABFA.8050607@webrz.net> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:05:15 -0000 On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:59:22 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > When setting up my 1TB harddisk for FreeBSD 9.0, I have some questions > about partioning: > I think of creating two partitions of 5Gb; one for the standard FreeBSD > file layour and a second one with a /backup slice on it. > Does this make sense? What exactly do you intend to backup (and why) onto a second partition on the same disk? Sure, it is possible to do so, but you should make yourself clear _what_ you want to do and why, then it will imply _how_ will do it the best way -- even though there might be more than one best way... :-) Also depending on your needs, 5GB may be too few to hold a full installation of OS and programs (even though I've managed to get a full 5.2 installation plus tons of programs on a 6 GB disk, with 50% of free space afterwards). What do you do with the remaining 900 GB of the disk? :-) Also, please make yourself familiar with the terminology of what a partitions and what a slice is, and see it in the proper context of MBR vs. GPT partitioning. If I take your use of the TT (termini technici) literally, you would have one partition containing everything rooted to /, and a second partition that contains the same. You would either manually have a backup mechanism from the 1st to the 2nd partition, or you could configure them in some automated mirroring mechanism. But I don't see a real use case when doing so on the _same_ disk. Still it would be possible, and it could even be helpful in some bad case scenario. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...