Question concerning Raid Manager default partition table

[Chuck Musciano]

I didn't realize I was getting *that* old.  Is the default Unix disk partitioning now considered ancient history?

In the dark ages, you put root on slice 0 (or partition a, as it was known in BSD Unix), swap on slice 1 (b), and /usr on slice 6 (g).  Slice 2 (c) was used for full disk access for backups, restores, or poking around to fix things.

My first Sun (in 1985) was a 3/50, with 4 MB of RAM and a 70 MB shoebox disk on the side.  Root used about 8 MB, swap another 16, /usr needed about 30 MB, leaving an enormous 16 MB for my personal files.  What more would anyone ever need?  Our 3/180 server had a huge 327 MB Xylogics drive for all the really big stuff.

Sigh...

Chuck Musciano

>>> "Chandler, Carolyn" <ChandleC@ncr.disa.mil> 01/19 6:23 PM >>>
Well...I always get into this very same
"religious" argument with SAs who don't
like the "historic" background for my
not using slice 2 as a mounted filesystem.
I now try to duck my head and pretend I
don't remember :-)  Thanks for posting the
FAQ. 

Carol 

-----Original Message-----


So there you have it - history ;)

cheers,
James C. McPherson

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