How should I partition 2 80 gig drives?

[Robin Smith]

bob self <bobself at charter.net> writes:
> I want to set up FreeBSD 5.4 Release to fully use 2 80 gig hard drives. I'm not sure how I
> should set these up in disklabel editor. I just want to use this as a general purpose machine.

I would recommend putting /usr/local as well as /usr/home on
their own partitions.  It greatly facilitates system upgrades
if you have a large number of users and/or a great many installed
ports.  

Robin Smith