Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:18:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: tony@aracnet.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem sizes for 4.x ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008300854070.4637-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20000830155709.A34589@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 August 2000 at 23:11:25 -0700, tony@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Can anyone give me the recommended filesystem sizes for FreeBSD 4.1 ? > > > > I've been upgrading from source since 2.0, upgrade to 3.x was painful > > as I ran out of space on / and /usr (had to start deleting unneeded bin= aries). > > > > Meant to repartition and rebuild 3.x but never got around to it, so wil= l be > > dealing with this when I upgrade to 4.1. > > > > Couldn't find any mention of this in the release notes, FAQ, handbook o= r > > archives. If anyone knows where I could have found the info, short of > > trying a reinstall, LMK. >=20 > There are lots of different opinions about the correct size of file > systems. You're welcome to mine. Here's a repeat of something I sent > a couple of days ago. Well, may I suggest mine? :-) > [..please let me snip a lot ..] > > As a result, I now recommend: >=20 > o Make a single root file system of between 2 and 4 GB. >=20 > o Do not have separate /usr or /var file systems. >=20 > o Use the rest of the space on disk for a /home file system, as long a= s it's > possible to back it up on a single tape. Otherwise make multiple= file > systems. /home is the normal directory for user files. One of the more serious problems I experienced in my life as a UNIX system administrator has been a file system overflow of / while editing the user data base with vipw. After that, the data base was lost. So I still prefer a separate / file system which I don't keep as small as in the days of small disks. Using 128 MB or so for / should do also in the years to come (I hope so). I still prefer a separate /var file system because doesn't hurt so much when it becomes full in case of accident. Ok, my users (and I by myself) often print large PostScript files so some space for spooling in var is needed, too. Why don't put 128..256 MB aside for /var today? Disks seem to be large enough. /usr may be 1..4 GB in size (depending on the extend of the installation) and /home as needed. Best wishes Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen http://www.daemonnews.o= rg Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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