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- From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
- Subject: Re: Optimal Partition Sizes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.195440.6097@super.org>
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- Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
- References: <1992Dec14.082932.3774@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1992Dec14.160325.10314@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:54:40 GMT
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- I first installed a Unix system about a decade ago (BSD on a VAX 750)
- and little has changed since then -- you always choose badly the first
- time you partition your disk. Luckily back then we had RA81 disk
- drives and could revisit our decision at the biweekly disk crash:^|
-
- While installing SunOS recently I saw a disk partitioning aid that I
- really found useful. There was a table of disk drive sizes and suggested
- partitioning that was understood by the disk partitioning program: you
- could select one of the pre-defined partitionings for the partiticular
- disk size you had.
-
- Sun's implementation had some flaws (like, their install only works
- with a layout very close to the "suggested" layout) and history has
- forced them to support some arcane cruft (like, the 'c' disk partition
- is really the whole disk -- which often lead to "gee we're not using
- the biggest partition, I'll make it swap") but with the added tables
- it's better than the way linux currently does 'fdisk'-related
- configuration.
-
- I've been rambling a little bit so I'll conclude: the linux community
- should be able to come up with something better than printing out the
- FAQ and typing in values verbatim.
-
-
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- Donald Becker becker@super.org
- Supercomputing Research Center
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