Hi Safi and Eric On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Eric Schnoebelen <[email protected]> wrote: > > "=?utf-8?Q?Saifi=20Khan?=" writes: > - Now, i have a boot disk (NetBSD terminology) of 320 GB (SATA II). > - > - Booted my laptop with 'boot.iso' (NetBSD-current) and using the > - 'NetBSD' fdisk utility, i created two MBR partitions (NetBSD > - terminology) of the following size: > - > - partition no 1: 20 GB (base system, src) > - partition no 2: 300 GB (pkgsrc, other sources, mails etc.) > - > - i intend to setup 'ffs' on both the MBR partitions. > - > - in the linux world, the disk would typically be '/dev/sda' and the > - two profound partitions would be > - > - /dev/sda1 > - /dev/sda2 > - > - in the NetBSD scheme of things, the first disk is seen as 'wd0'. > - In that case, how would the two 'MBR partitions' be addressed as? > > NetBSD doesn't use MBR partitions to define individual > filesystems. In NetBSD (and nearly every other UNIX-like > operating system on the x86 besides Linux) uses one MBR > partition to contain all of its filesystems. > > So, for the above partitioning scheme, you want a single NetBSD > partion of 320Gb, and then two BSD partitions (or slices) > defined using disklabel(8). More than likely they will be wd0a and > wd0e once you've completed labeling.
My tiny comment: What about swap? (!) In my opinion swap should be at least to times the size of your memory.. Of course, swap could be a memory-disk. Secondly I see no eason to divide a disk between a root partition and a partition for the rest. In the "good old days (when things were bad)" we had disk of some 60-80 MB. and whenever something grew too big, we had to re-arrange data via save/restore. I have spent many a night with that job Personally, I use _one_big_parrtition_ for everything today. The utility save is used for sfety copies. Restore only to find historical texts et c. > <snip> > > - 3. does fsck like utility perform better when one has slice with > - BSD partitions rather than straight DOS like partition ? > > I'm not following what is being asked here .. I do not either. Please re-formulate your question. Kind regards Hans
