From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 7: 5:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B061537B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 07:05:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f26F3vi38390; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:03:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <005401c0a64f$4c800760$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Chip Wiegand" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20010306065006.7599db0d.chip@wiegand.org> Subject: Re: post installation and /usr /var /tmp location Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:08:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have recently been given some computers, not new but quite usable. One > of which is a compaq prosignia 300 - 3 scsi 1.x harddrives, scsi > cddrive, 32 megs ram, P90. I am going to install fbsd 4.2 on this > machine and would like to put the /usr partition on one drive, and the > /var and /tmp partitions on the 3rd drive. In Gregs book he shows the > commands to move the /tmp and /var from root to /usr. If I name the > second and 3rd drives usr2 and usr3, can I do just as easily move the > /tmp and /var to usr3 and also the /usr to usr2? I am just trying to > make the best use of the 3 small drives. I am open to any other > suggestions from anyone who has come up against this situation. Yes, that should work fine. Since you're moving /usr, /var and /tmp, all that your boot drive will have is / and swap. I believe the default size of / is 50MB, and that swap is usually allocated as 2 x RAM, which in your case, would be 64MB. Hence, your first 1GB drive would have <150MB of stuff on it, "wasting" 850MB. Also, you may find that /usr may grow to be more than 1 GB, depending on what you've got in /usr/home, /usr/ports and /usr/local. Depending on what you're planning on doing with the machine, a slightly different layout would be appropriate. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message