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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:40:46 -0700
From:      James Harrison <jamesh@lanl.gov>
To:        "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <v-alrudy@microsoft.com>
Cc:        Nikola =?UTF-8?Q?Le=C4=8Di=C4=87?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net>, "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org" <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM
Message-ID:  <1198179646.4688.9.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov>
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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




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