Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:08:37 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Alexander Rudyk \(Akvelon\)" <v-alrudy@microsoft.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM Message-ID: <44sl1x4d56.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8AD3AC8@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> (Alexander Rudyk's message of "Wed\, 19 Dec 2007 17\:17\:50 -0800") References: <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8AD3AC8@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
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"Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <v-alrudy@microsoft.com> writes: > I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD and 2GB > RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will be used to web > development (RubyOnRails), entertaiment (photo, music, video), > web browsing and emailing, so no server side task will be handled. > > How you suggest to split 80GB between partitions to solve all laptop tasks. > Here is partitions: > /root > /var > /usr > /home > /swap You might want to consider a single partition (other than swap). The only reason I separate partitions these days is to make backups easier.
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