From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 19:48:12 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 E5DCA16A417 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD7B13C455 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lBKJlBn3050898; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:47:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id lBKJlBsD050897; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:47:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:47:11 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: James Harrison Message-ID: <20071220194711.GB50741@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1198179646.4688.9.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: "Alexander Rudyk \(Akvelon\)" , Nikola Le??i?? , "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 19:48:13 -0000 On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:40:46PM -0700, 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. Not unless you make it that way. If you do not create a /home partition then it can become just a symlink to /usr/home. But, it is not if you make a /home partition. Then it gets turned in to a real mount point. ////jerry > > > 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" >