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Wei Weng wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> How big should I set up for my /usr if I have like 1500 MB partition for
> freeBSD? Does freeBSD have something like /home /boot? I have tried the
> fdisk in freebsd and the (a)uto command in it, and it gave 64MB swap 32MB
> /, 120MB /var and the rest(about 1300MB) /usr. I wonder where I can put my
> /home in. And does anyone try to install all the port collections in? How
> big will that be? I always got error(install package*** error) through the
> installation I wonder does that mean I dont have enuff disk space for it?
> thanx
> 
For my opinion you can use this "AS IS" for newbie, your /home will be
linked to
/usr/home.
If you know how how much space you need for /home then you should take
that space
leaving at least 600 to 800 Meg for /usr if you are going to fiddle with
lot of
packages or ports.

Extract your ports tarball in /usr so you will get /usr/ports directory.

This is my disk configuration:
/dev/wd0a       49231    32513    12780    72%    /
/dev/wd0s2     308280   243584    64696    79%    /dos     my shared dos
partition  - I run winNT and win95 on same disk
/dev/sd0s2e    654217   585267    16613    97%    /master  my area to
make cdrom disks (trash area)
/dev/sd0s1e   1339573   850789   381619    69%    /home    as is
/dev/wd0s3f    835775   750282    18631    98%    /usr    	
/dev/wd0s3e     59471     3513    51201     6%    /var
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
/dev/wd2s1f   2864422   350450  2284819    13%    /usr2    I am building
3.0 area here for multiboot
/dev/wd2s1e     29727      933    26416     3%    /var2
/dev/wd2s1a     31775    13201    16032    45%    /root2

I hope this will help

Thordur Ivarsson
thivars@est.is