On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Polytropon wrote:
ad0 |-----------------------------------------------| the whole disk
ad0s1 \----------------------------------------------/ one slice
ad0s1X \--/\---/\-----/\-----/\-------/\------------/ partitions
a b d e f g
/ swap /tmp /var /usr /home mount point
OK this is clear..
a / 1Gb,
b swap,
d /root 20 Gb, (a /root partition is from an example of someone who
claims that at boot FreeBSD checks the partions in background except
for the / partition, by keeping / as small as possible, the time to
boot can be mimimized .. correct? but will /root ever be something
big ??)
No no, / refers to "the root partition". One way of setting
up partitions is just to have one partition (one root parttion)
and put everything on it, including /tmp, /var, /usr and /home.
I know / is the "root partition", but /root is the home-directory of
the user root (/etc/passwd: root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh).
I doubt this will ever be needed to be large? If its not large
fsck neither will spend much time in it. So I guess it's just safe
not to make this a separate BSD-partiton ?
Another philosophy is to create partitions designated to their
further use, just as I mentioned it above.
Yes, but it's hard to find out what is best... I'm constantly
swinged between the one (/ including /tmp /var /usr) and the
other (all separate) option ...
this leaves 2420 Gb which is more than 2 Tb, so you can't put all
that in 1 filesystem h /home, you will need to split that in 2
BSD-paritions, but since you can't have more that 8 BSD-partitions
(highest BSD-partition letter is h), you need to give up at least
one of d, e, f, g. ... correct or not (then what)?
I quite doubt that FreeBSD's UFS 2 cannot handle a 2 TB partition
as a whole, but because I don't have sch large disks with UFS
(I have ZFS for them), I cannot tell.
Anyone else can tell?
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