Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:12:32 +0100 From: Nikola =?UTF-8?B?TGXEjWnEhw==?= <nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net> To: "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <v-alrudy@microsoft.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM Message-ID: <20071220211232.427f6a41@anthesphoria.net> 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>
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:41 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <v-alrudy@microsoft.com> wrote: =20 > Nikola, >=20 > Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. >=20 > Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don=E2=80=99t > 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. The hier(7) manpage is very useful to understand the default directory structure: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dhier&apropos=3D0&sektion=3D0&m= anpath=3DFreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=3Dhtml As for mail, it depends on how you plan to receive and handle it; if you just download mail from pop3 account, it will be stored in your home by a mail client (this goes as well for mail you export from Outlook to e.g. Thunderbird). For locally (system) delivered mail, /var/spool is the default place, but unless you want yo use your laptop as a mail server, it's unlikely you will store your mail there. > 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? Of course it's very useful for backups. I just thought it was useful to warn you about how much space /usr/ports could need because the default installation procedure on FreeBSD is to compile sources (of thirs party applications and of FreeBSD itself). As a useful example on how much space you might need, here are rough sizes on my home desktop computer, used for everyday work. I have ~850 ports installed. /usr/ports ~2G (with current distfiles and packages that happen to be there + you will need at least 2-3G for large upgrades, sometimes > 10G) /usr/local ~5G (third party applications + additions such as TeXLive =3D ~1G) /usr/home ~20G --------------------- /usr total used: ~30G (includes FreeBSD itself + some other smaller storages) If you plan to build FreeBSD itself in the future, then /usr must be even bigger. If all this leaves enough room for /home for you, then it's certainly very useful to make it separate partition. --=20 Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 :: =D0=9D=D0=B8=D0=BA=D0=BE=D0=BB=D0=B0 =D0=9B=D0=B5= =D1=87=D0=B8=D1=9B
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