From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 02:03:24 2005 Return-Path: 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 C834A16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:03:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from newalpha.avalonworks.net (newalpha.avalonworks.net [216.58.97.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B8243D58 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:03:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hindrich@worldchat.com) Received: from Brantford-ppp108112.sympatico.ca (Brantford-ppp108112.sympatico.ca [216.209.108.59])j0P23JQ9027412; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:03:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hindrich@worldchat.com) From: Peterhin To: Oliver Leitner Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:03:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200501241943.20596.hindrich@worldchat.com> <200501250048.j0P0mpq4076864@newalpha.avalonworks.net> In-Reply-To: <200501250048.j0P0mpq4076864@newalpha.avalonworks.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501242103.17605.hindrich@worldchat.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/681/Mon Jan 24 10:31:46 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on newalpha.avalonworks.net X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition Size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:03:25 -0000 I am going by what G. Lehey is suggesting in his book "The Complete FreeBSD" on pg. 70 he does not recommend a /usr, or a /var file system. > i dont see the /usr in your calculations... > > asside of that... > > it really depends on what youre going to do with the system, or which > data its going to be holding... > I am mostly going to use it for my personal files, internet, email and learning UNIX. > this is absolutely subjective, cant tell you as long as i dont get > any further data on the probably size of your data, and where theyll > be stored... > > > Greetings > Oliver Leitner > Technical Staff > http://www.shells.at > > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:43, Peterhin wrote: > > I asked the question the other day, whether to do a standard > > install or a custom install. This was brought about because I read > > several sources, including G. Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" > > > > I will be doing a Custom install. My question however, is looking > > at page 70, in "The Complete FreeBSD" and I quote "Use the rest of > > the space on disk for a /home file system. as long as it's possible > > to back it up on a single tape. Otherwise make multiple file > > systems." > > > > My question is do I make multiple /home directories.? I have a SATA > > 80GB hard drive, so as Greg L. suggests 4GB to 6GB for the root > > file system. > > 1GB to 2GB for the Swap file. The rest of the disk for the /home > > file. > > > > That would leave me with a /home of approx. 72GB. I would > > appreciate any thoughts as to how I should do this. The computer > > will be used as a stand alone workstation, with internet and email > > access for now. I do have a large number of JPEG files in my > > existing /home directory. (Linux) -- Peter "Peace is never more than one thought away"