On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 05:29:37PM -0600, Eric Brown wrote: > I heartily recommend "Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition." > > The answers to (almost) all of your questions, and others that are bound > to come up, can be found there. It's written at a nice intermediate > level. > > Also, is it necessary to partition your disk into smaller pieces? I > mean, I can understand why this could be important. But in my > experience, I have had many more issues with small partitions than one > great big /. Usually by way of tinkering with sizes to be big enough, > but not too big. It seems to be never ending agonizing unless the > workload is known fairly precisely. > > Yes, you would need a (C)ustom: > > z (<- erase table) > a > b (<- add a swap if you want, customarily 2 * ram of system) > (accept offset) > (enter size, e.g. `8G' ) > a > a (<- remainder for /) > (accept offset) > (accept size) > (accept default format) > ( mount at `/' ) > > w > q > > and move on to better things in life. (You can back up to another volume > with rsync, too!) > > Best regards, > Eric
Running everything in one big partition has big drawbacks. See the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning Editing the auto-allocated label (using the relativey new R command) is what I do. -Otto
