From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 7:20:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90CA150D0 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:20:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id PAA16190; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:15:25 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA15917; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:13:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA28643; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:01:39 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id QAA07606; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:02:52 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37207EDC.5F214C37@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:08:28 +0200 From: Herbelot Thierry Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Cc: fpscha@ns1.sminter.com.ar, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition sizes on 3.1 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Clem.Dye@wdr.com wrote: > > OK. Thanks for the tips. It then comes down to the issue of how much > space do you allocate per partition. My thinking (working on a 3.2GB > disk and 72MB ram) is as follows for the system-related stuff: > > swap - separate slice 150MB (ie: 2x physical ram) > / 100MB > /usr 500MB > /usr/local 350MB > /var 250MB > /temp 250MB > > /home & /data would get the remainder. [SNIP] I would use a MUCH larger /usr (in part because I store there /usr/src which is ~ 250 Megs and /usr/obj which is also ~ 250 Megs - for 3.1) A separate /tmp partition is probably not necessary : you could enlarge your swap partition and use it as a MFS (memory file system) mounted under /tmp More generally, if you have many partitions, it's easy to have at least one of them not large enough, and there is not "partition magic" tool for FreeBSD - so I personnaly have only /, /var and /usr (plus swap), wiht he sizes automatically computed by the install program. TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message