kermit@BRL.MIL (Chuck Kennedy) (08/14/90)
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.