Slices

[Sasa Stupar]

--On 13. december 2005 12:36 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas 
<keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> On 2005-12-13 09:36, Sasa Stupar <sasa at stupar.homelinux.net> wrote:
>>> The main two reasons for dividing up your FreeBSD disk in to
>>> partitions rather than making just one big partition are to reduce
>>> the threat of runaway processes and to manage backup and restore
>>> sizes.
>>>
>>> Think those things out to meet your needs and resources.
>>
>> OK. But then what would be ideal slice size for /, /var, /usr, /boot?
>
> That's not something that can be answered easily with a "template"
> answer.  The best sizes are those that match your own needs and
> preferences, but only you can describe what these are.'
>
> Back when I bought a new, bigger disk, I wrote this post:
>
>
> http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/2004-10-26/daemonizing-a-n
> ew-disk
>
> which includes a description of the partitions I used and why I chose
> these sizes.
>
> The tuning(7) manpage also has a good description of how to pick a good
> disk partitioning scheme:
>
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tuning&sektion=7&apropos=0&manpa
> th=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Ports
>

Thanx. This is very good explanation.

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Sasa Stupar