Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:18:44 -0800 From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: Peterhin <hindrich@worldchat.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition Size Message-ID: <57d71000050124181851e66d76@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200501241943.20596.hindrich@worldchat.com> References: <200501241943.20596.hindrich@worldchat.com>
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> > 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) > generally speaking you would probably be safe having one large /home partition, altho seeing as how you are planning on using this as a workstation for personal learning/dev. work I would make a backup of your important data frequently. My general scheme for splitting up disks with freebsd is like so: 1Gb -> / 2GB -> swap 512M -> /tmp 512M -> /var else -> /usr my $HOME directory is located at /usr/home. This is fine for me %90 of the time for my personal work...if this were a box dedicated for production use I'd obviously spend a fair amount of time planning for the future and partition my disks accordingly. the idea of having a large /usr/ partition is that this is generally where the alot of the systems source code lives as well as the ports tree...this can take up alot of room as time goes on if you are not carefull. HTH -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
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