From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 15:35:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49810106564A for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:35:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from juvix88@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C468FC12 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:35:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so3308775qyk.13 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:35:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=PFLjjnVnL3Sq6ry2sYyVOPp5FsTR2SL+t5nSNGwmgZo=; b=beriHN9y44UBCFnRXv6SZfzhmikLNzTqKo18uAcVvyKUarY47hn86Ebprd5ahCsgbj 9FaEf5jJkl0xiD8Xt/dVJ5KlZfupWatS0+dREq/oIuHq7IZtH1Cz2zZ8lTR5hSXe/M4O FcNCZrJIqI87WPHD+QYfV4mOT69FcErzFv1og= Received: by 10.229.43.150 with SMTP id w22mr1061246qce.156.1316100902035; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:35:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.199] (ool-18ba4338.dyn.optonline.net. [24.186.67.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ic20sm7738582qab.24.2011.09.15.08.34.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E721B21.1000303@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:34:57 -0400 From: Jonathan Vomacka User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: f92902@hushmail.com References: <20110915091911.60BAD10E2D6@smtp.hushmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110915091911.60BAD10E2D6@smtp.hushmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:35:03 -0000 Thanks bud. On 9/15/2011 5:19 AM, f92902@hushmail.com wrote: >> There is nothing wrong with having / and /usr on separate > partitions; in fact, there are some mild advantages to fine-grained > partitioning for folks who pay attention to their filesystem space > usage. > > To elaborate on this: > > Assuming you have separate /var, /tmp, /usr and /home partitions, > the only files that should be on / are: > > 1. Part of base system not in /usr > 2. Kernels (/boot/kernel) > 3. root home directory (/root) > > Therefore the size of / does not grow with time on most systems. It > also tends to be independent of what the system is used for, unlike > the size of /usr for example. > > On my systems / is between 1.5 gb to 2 gb depending on overall disk > size. /usr is up to 10 gb on desktop systems. > > A benefit of having / on its own partition is that it becomes much > harder to run / out of disk space by accident. Checking out source > trees (/usr/ports, /usr/src), building world (/usr/obj), building > ports (/usr/ports), running software that uses > /usr/local//logs for storing its log files, etc. all > have potential to write to /usr if you don't have appropriate > configuration/symlinks/partitions set up to redirect them to the > right places. If your /usr is separate from / then running out of > disk space on /usr is usually harmless. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"