Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

2012-10-17 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Thanks for this very informative suggestion. I think I need to study it thouroughly, but will certainly head for that solution. kind regards, Jos Chrispijn Polytropon: That would work, and could be performed easily even using the slice editor of the sysinstall program. Of course, make sure

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

2012-10-14 Thread Jos Chrispijn
I was intending this on my 1TB hard disk (FreeBSD only): Two slices of 500G Slice one: 1g/ 4gswap 7g/var 1g/tmp 487g /var Slice two: 500g /backup I question myself why I should use a 1TB hard disk, but it came with the hardware J-) I might better use

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

2012-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I was intending this on my 1TB hard disk (FreeBSD only): Two slices of 500G Slice one: 1g/ Don't use less than 2G here. You have room. 4gswap 7g/var Way more than is needed, unless you plan to store non-FreeBSD stuff

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

2012-10-14 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 14 October 2012 19:05:32 Jos Chrispijn wrote: The slice one and two idea is perhaps Windows related, but I thought if I want to update my FreeBSD9 t0, let's say 10 or 11, I only have to clean slice one and put BSD on that again (having the backup slice untouched). My approach would

Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2)

2012-10-13 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2012/10/14 at 01:59, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net 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