From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 12 10:35:02 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA05154 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 10:35:02 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA05140 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 10:34:52 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id SAA02177 ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 18:33:07 +0100 X-Message: This is a dial-up site. Quick responses to e-mails should not be relied upon. Thanks! To: -Vince- cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, john@zyqad.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:20:20 EDT." Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 18:33:06 +0100 Message-ID: <2175.808248786@palmer.demon.co.uk> From: Gary Palmer Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message , -V ince- writes: > Hmmm okay but I notice like many systems still have mounting >points like they have a whole disk or partition just for /var/mail but >can you give a example how the above is done and can FreeBSD handle 9 GIG >SCSI drives? Err - /var/spool/news on news.cdrom.com is just that - a 9Gb SCSI disk. And news is running FreeBSD... Gary