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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server??
Date: 7 Oct 1996 11:14:29 GMT
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In article <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org>,
	duane@amd40.wecs.org (Duane Eddingfield) writes:
> My question is: What's a good partitioning scheme?
> 
>    I was thinking of possibly as much as 300 MB for OS and the
> INN-FAQ tells me to keep the 'overviews' out of the groups tree.
> 
> Suggestions anybody ??

I'd take a look at the ccd driver.  It concatenates disk partitions so
that you don't have to figure out how much space you need where :)

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....