From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 19:46:43 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 A1FE216A473 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:46:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (entwistle.sonicboom.org [66.93.34.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FAB13C4D9 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:46:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (entwistle.sonicboom.org [66.93.34.170]) by entwistle.sonicboom.org (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lBKJkHe2002265; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:46:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Message-ID: <476AC689.6060807@brianwhalen.net> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:46:17 -0800 From: Brian User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jamesh@lanl.gov References: <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8AD3AC8@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20071220195636.116ac9bb@anthesphoria.net> <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8E204FA@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <1198179646.4688.9.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <1198179646.4688.9.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "Alexander Rudyk \(Akvelon\)" , =?UTF-8?B?Tmlrbw==?=, =?UTF-8?B?bGEgTGXEjWnEhw==?= , "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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:46:43 -0000 James Harrison wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I know of people that put /usr/home on a separate physical disk, then they can recover more easily in the event of a system catastrophe. Brian