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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: More FS'es on HD?? Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:45:36 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 50 Message-ID: <334D89B0.831@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5i1i9a$2dum@sheraton.asianconnect.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: "S.T.Chang" <chang@narwhal.sns.com.sg> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38886 S.T.Chang wrote: > > Dear All, > > I was trying to install FreeBSD on a 3.2GB HD. Rather than > having a few large FS'es, I tried to create more smaller FS'es. > Then partition layout was as follows. > > wd0s1 DOS 150MB > wd0s2 EMPTY 280MB > wd0s3 FreeBSD / 40MB > wd0s4 Other FreeBSD slices Rest of HD I'm not sure why you put / in it's own disk slice and the other filesystems in slice 4. Within each slice, it is possible to partition [a..h] (ie. 8 separate filesystems/swap partitions). This should be plenty for most people. The only reasons that I can see for separate filesystems are- (a) rw .v. ro filesystems (b) different backup strategies (ie. daily .v. weekly .v. never) (c) different block/frag/inode requirements On our proxy server, I have /, /usr, .../logs, .../cache filesystems as well as 3 raw paritions used for swapping. These are spread over 4 physical drives with 2 of the drives a ccd pseudo-device! > > While subpartition /dev/wd0s4, I hited the limit after reaching > /dev/wd0s4h. Subsequent FS creation through the sysinstall menu > give me /dev/X. I suspect that 'h' is the last possible partition because it is the 8th letter of the alphabet. I have never seen a Unix system with a higher partition letter!!! > > Is there a way to get pass this problem?? Or I just have to > have less FS'es which are larger in size? > No (probably), and Yes. Why do you want SO MANY filesystems, all on the one physical drive? The heads will be bouncing all over the place... > Thanks in advance. > > Regards > S.T.Chang > -- Tony