From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 17:57:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97CBE16A41C for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:57:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2CC43D48 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:57:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4EB4CBFE08 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:57:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: 8VjProuZBgkhGGQs7uU/DsEO6OV2K8zgUR4EldaIfnCX 1121623034 Received: from gumby.localdomain (dsl-80-41-75-74.access.as9105.com [80.41.75.74]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123DC56F785 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:57:13 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:57:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <42D80E2D.707@3lefties.com> In-Reply-To: <42D80E2D.707@3lefties.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507171857.13748.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Three questions... 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: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:57:16 -0000 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.