From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 18:34:53 2004 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 4939C16A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:34:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp14.wxs.nl (smtp14.wxs.nl [195.121.6.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E9843D49 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:34:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp14.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0HZQ006553KAPL@smtp14.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:33:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5MIXk3a001983; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:33:46 +0200 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i5MIXjCa001982; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:33:45 +0200 Content-return: prohibited Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:33:45 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200406211456.i5LEu2S07515@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: Jerry McAllister Message-id: <20040622183345.GA944@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <20040620204524.GA907@alex.lan> <200406211456.i5LEu2S07515@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: eyesonly@xs4all.nl cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk 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, 22 Jun 2004 18:34:53 -0000 On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:56:00AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > With that little disk space, I would be inclined to make it all > > > just one root (/) partition - with a bit of swap. You might not > > > even be able to have a swap as big as memory with no more disk than > > > that, but try for a swap of memory size or at least 100 MB or so > > > and the rest in /. > > > > > > I think FreeBSD has grown since they made those claims of 250 MB > > > being enough for a minimum. You might be able to cram it in, > > > but would have little room for doing anything. > > > > That is realy a bad idee. > > > > / is supposted to be small to limit the change that something > > irriversible happens to it during a crash > > /tmp can be mounted so that it gets a real power boost > > > > There are many other reason why not to do this. I can't think of them > > this quickly. > > We ain't talking a commercial grade server operation here. > With this small a disk, the more space you dead-end by consigning > it to a file system that isn't getting used the more you limit > what you can do -- in this case. Still the size of root is constand over time. Haveing two partitions (/ and /disk/) whould be better. You then can ln -s /tmp /usr /... to share these. Personaly I would juist try it out one or two times before installing it diffently. Then then do it with sepperated partitions. > I would not do this if I had > lots of disk, but... > > Actually, some of the heavy hitters out there say they have been > leaning toward all / disk partitioning + swap, of course. That doesn't make it a good idee. I woudn't jump in to the watter even if everybody else did. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/