From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 19:40:54 2007 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 C3E0616A41B for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:40:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov (mailwasher.lanl.gov [204.121.3.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B64413C448 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:40:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesh@lanl.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A3AEC8758; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:40:53 -0700 (MST) X-CTN5-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mailwasher.lanl.gov Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE975EC876E; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:40:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80DCEC8758; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:40:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from oppie-mail.lanl.gov (oppie-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.4.123]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id lBKJeq0W006072; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:40:52 -0700 Received: from [128.165.86.60] (p25dual1.lanl.gov [128.165.86.60]) by oppie-mail.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46D31F8005; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:40:46 -0700 (MST) From: James Harrison To: "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" In-Reply-To: <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8E204FA@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> References: <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8AD3AC8@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20071220195636.116ac9bb@anthesphoria.net> <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8E204FA@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Organization: Los Alamos National Labs Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:40:46 -0700 Message-Id: <1198179646.4688.9.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 (2.8.0-33.0.1.el5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: jamesh@lanl.gov X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Nikola =?UTF-8?Q?Le=C4=8Di=C4=87?= , "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jamesh@lanl.gov List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:40:54 -0000 On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:26 -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: > Nikola, > > Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. > > Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t > know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half of year > I have about 4GB outlook mail db. So 1GB for /var might be not enough > in my case. > > Having /home as part of /usr is the good point. But in case of backup > it make sense to have /home as separate partition. What you think about this? > > Thx > Alex > > /home is just a symlink to /usr/home, so that wouldn't help. cd / ls -l lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Nov 2 05:37 home -> usr/home You might want to put /usr/home on a separate partition, but that's your call. James