From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 20:12:50 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 5A03816A41A for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) Received: from anthesphoria.net (anthesphoria.net [200.46.204.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD6F13C455 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:12:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.3.2 anthesphoria.net lBKKCcpM004718 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=anthesphoria.net; s=phero; t=1198181569; bh=olK1LmhVbdIlz3OzL55WXii2T063UdN4rvSuoLJB0 9E=; l=2413; h=X-Bogosity:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:X-Face:X-Operating-System: Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=RnK3ZlZrWxT c9ZVkXj07k2OEU/OX1ZGzkjvlV4D7EJuFJ51JkRj616HGcDTIDTVddO6XYWxOyXFw3B LKIgz6pViiV0YZPhMW2YncrAM/tHmKtvxBf/glyckSI0jrwApzAyeo8VrtxmHwZCMDi tX+by252fUEOpQeZkyyQ8JruP8= Received: from anthesphoria.net (adsl-217-143.eunet.yu [213.198.217.143]) (authenticated bits=0) by anthesphoria.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lBKKCcpM004718 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:12:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:12:32 +0100 From: Nikola =?UTF-8?B?TGXEjWnEhw==?= To: "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) X-Face: pbl6-.[$G'Fi(Ogs2xlXP-V6{3||$Y[LOYs&~GJoikj'cVjcFC[V7du;;0~6nO= [Vi2?uU1Pq~,=Adj@,T:|"`$AF~il]J.Nz#2pU',Y7.{B;m/?{#sO^Dvo$rnmY6] X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: 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 20:12:50 -0000 On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:41 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" 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