From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 21:35:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA26002 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA25984 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mirage.skypoint.com (mirage.skypoint.com [199.86.32.7]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id VAA17863 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 21:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mirage.skypoint.com via sendmail with stdio id for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 23:34:12 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2) Message-Id: From: hirsh@skypoint.com (Roger P Johnson) Subject: Disk partioning question/theory/suggestions To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 23:34:12 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What advantages is there to partioning a larger disk, say a 2GB drive, into 2 or more logical drives with each logical drive further divided up into 1 or more filesystems ? Is it worth the extra work to do so? Is there a performance gain? How are others setting up their BSD drives? How many MBytes for like /usr, /usr/local, /var etc. Mine is just used for 1 or 2 users, software development, NFS, experimental web server (read 1 or 2 users), XFree, no newsfeeds. Just for the heck of it, I partioned a 1 GB into 4 logical drives, and each further down into many filesystems, and it seemed to work. Hmmm.... Thanks Roger