Documentation and similar issues with 5.3

[Rob B]

At 04:39 AM 8/01/2005, William H. Magill wrote:
>The one thing which I have noticed, however, is that that there is nothing I
>have been able to find which recommends partition sizes, especially for 
>various
>disk geometries. As I recall, there were quite a number of "unused sector"
>(or something like that) messages during the initialization.
>
>The partition sizes I picked wound up with only 39% used for / but 70%
>used for /usr, and 2% for /var. With a 9 gig drive:
>
>  xp1> sudo disklabel  da0
># /dev/da0:
>8 partitions:
>#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:   262144        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 16392
>   b:  2097152   262144      swap
>   c: 17773524        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, 
> don't edit
>   d:   409600  2359296    4.2BSD     2048 16384 25608
>   e:  4194304  2768896    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>   f: 10810324  6963200    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28528
>Where:
>a= /
>b= swap
>d= /var
>e= /usr
>f= /local0
>
>I think I used A- 100 meg B- 2 gig D- 400 meg E-4 gig F- rest.
>(I did use the "meg" and "gig" terms in the initilaization)


You'll want a /home partition, or symlink /home to somewhere with more 
space (like /local0)

cheers,
Rob

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