From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 16 09:56:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA10272 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA10265 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA02152; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:55:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ihab Khoury cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adduser.conf In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Ihab Khoury wrote: > Greetings, > > I finished installing FreeBSD on a [64MG, 2GIG scsi] from a CD > that I bought. All went well, but I still have two questions..! > 1)..what is the Hard Disk partition based on ? is it the Memory..? > I have this partition with a 2GIG hard drive: > 800MG for / > 800MG for /usr > 64MG for /swp > the rest for /var > is there a special way of calculating this ? Sort of. your swap partition should be twice the size of available memory. After that it's up to you, although we recommend a small / (ie, 50mb or so), a decent /var, and the rest for /usr. So for your 2 gig disk, the following would be a reasonable split. / - 50MB (I don't know what is MG is :-) ) /var - 50MB If you're planing on doing a lot of mail you'll want to symlink /var/mail over to /usr. /usr - rest (1900MB) / is an administrative FS, no user data is going on there, so there is no sense making it big. /var has variable data, such as printer spools. The mailboxes end up tehre too, but you can move that heirarchy over if you're finding you have big inboxes or are serving a lot of people. Hope this helps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major