Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:34:30 -0800 From: "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <v-alrudy@microsoft.com> To: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM Message-ID: <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8E20685@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20071220211232.427f6a41@anthesphoria.net> References: <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8AD3AC8@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20071220195636.116ac9bb@anthesphoria.net> <3659EBC278926E47B1802BE0129D1B6007D8E204FA@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20071220211232.427f6a41@anthesphoria.net>
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Thank all of you for really helpful answers. I am thinking about this configuration (might be helpful for someone in the future) a: / (root) 256 MB b: /swap 4096 MB d: /tmp 768 MB e: /usr 8192 MB f: /var 2048 MB g: /home all the rest. Think that 8GB will be enough for /usr ports, local and build os from scratch, and 2GB for /var - in any case I can symlink some of those to /home So we need about 15GB of free storage only for FreeBSD needs. Thx Alex -----Original Message----- From: Nikola Lečić [mailto:nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:13 PM To: Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:41 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <v-alrudy@microsoft.com> 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. The hier(7) manpage is very useful to understand the default directory structure: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html 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 = ~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. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић
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