Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:57:13 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Three questions... Message-ID: <200507171857.13748.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <42D80E2D.707@3lefties.com> References: <42D80E2D.707@3lefties.com>
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On Friday 15 July 2005 20:27, George Ruch wrote: > Q3: Partitioning > Yes, I know you've seen several million questions on partitioning > schemes. I've read up on it, and I'd like to get some feedback on this > plan. All slices would be p/o ad1a, which has approx. 14,704MB free. > > / 128M > /usr 8192M > /home 3312M > /var 1024M > /tmp 1024M > swap 1024M (4 x physical) With this amount of space, unless you a setting up a server for a dedicated application, I would go with the freebsd default of having /home as a symlink to /usr/home. I would also shrink /tmp down at least to 256M or even less, normally things break down into two sets: those that need fiddling small amounts of tmp space, and those that need huge amounts and need to be pointed elsewhere. Similarly with /var - I'm currently using 68MB out of 512MB on a standard desktop machine, huge var partitions are used in certain kinds of specialist servers. BTW I would recommend GAG as a boot manager: - no configurations files needed, you can install it through menus from a linux live cd - once it's installed on the disk you can maintain it from it's own bootprompt menu. That's a really nice, because a year from now you wont need to reread man pages to change the boot delay, or add another os.
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