disk partitions
Chuck Kennedy
kermit at BRL.MIL
Tue Aug 14 03:52:50 AEST 1990
We also decided that the SGI supplied disk layout was not quite right for our
site and came up with the following arrangement:
Partition Type Fs Start: sec (cyl) Size: sec (cyl) Mount Directory
0 efs 3780 ( 3) 57960 ( 46) /
1 raw 61740 ( 49) 580860 ( 461)
6 efs yes 642600 ( 510) 1377180 (1093) /usr
7 efs 3780 ( 3) 2016000 (1600)
8 volhdr 0 ( 0) 3780 ( 3)
9 trkrepl 2019780 (1603) 40320 ( 32)
10 volume 0 ( 0) 2060100 (1635)
We opted not to disturb either the volhdr or trkrepl partitions, so as
to minimize the work involved. This scheme gives a larger root
partition so that /tmp is not crowded, a swap space that is ~4.5X the
size of physical memory (64MB), while keeping /usr decently sized.
Plus, all the SGI stuff stays on one drive so that all of our
users' data lives on other drives. When SGI shows up to work on
the machine, we just spin down the drives that have our data on
them and turn over the machine for repair.
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