Re: What to do 4 a correct Partition 4 freeBSD ?

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 01/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:41:01 +0000 (UTC)

In article <3ff923da_2@corp.newsgroups.com>, Donn Miller wrote:
> Still, there are some good ideas in the Linux camp.

True, but that wasn't the point. It is not unimportant when and how you
intergate your k-rad ideas where.

> Aren't all laptops UP? I was hoping to find a quad-cpu laptop one of
> these days...

Apparently there are some that are SMP or maybe just HTT capable. But most
likely those /look/ like a laptop but won't play like one. Like being too
large or heavy, far too hot[0], or no battery life to speak of.

Now that there's pseudo-more-core or true-more-core chips on the market,
it might be interesting to see if one can build a laptop out of the
parts. Like the 1GHz true-dual-code RM9000x2. At only 10 watts power
consumption, about the same as an early TiBook G4, it'd give us a 64bit
MIPS SMP notebook. No clue about DDR and notebooks tho. </soapbox>

> Also, regarding Linux's fdisk: I noticed that if I create a partition
> with cfdisk, sometimes plain Linux fdisk reports that some space (around
> 2MB) is unused. So I wound up going with plain fdisk to create my
> logical partitions.

I haven't seen an fdisk that doesn't leave bits and pieces unused around
the edges. Maybe it's just me. Still, 20M total wasted space on a 20G
disk isn't that much of a loss, altough annoying.

[0] I already think my UP laptop is too hot. Not just because heat means
    energy wasted means shorter-than-possible battery life.
    I'd love to see a vr5500 based laptop tho. 

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