From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 01:55:42 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 E2B5A16A41F for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:55:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1988A43D80 for ; Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:55:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id jB81tZ38002861; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 20:55:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id jB81tZNp002860; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 20:55:35 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200512080155.jB81tZNp002860@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: wrangled@verizon.net (wrangled) Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 20:55:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <43933801.6000602@verizon.net> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make? 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: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:55:43 -0000 > > > I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I > plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have > 512MB RAM. > > According to this page: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html > > I should use: > > / = 100MB > /swap = 1GB > /var = 50MB > /usr = rest (68GB) I use about this on a big disk like that: / 128 MB swap 1.5 GB /tmp 512 MG /usr 2 GB /var 4 GB /home all the rest of the slice. > That is enough to get most stuff includeing a small database up and going. If I need more room in /usr or /var I move some stuff such as /usr/ports or /var/db or /var/spool or /var/log to the /home filesystem where they can grow and make symlinks. ////jerry > On past FreeBSD installs, I would occasionaly do things as root, and ran > out of space in /root. Since then, on desktop machines (with 250GB > drives), I would make / be 4GB. On my lapatop, I wouldn't want to give > up 4 of my 70 gigs if I didn't have to. So I am looking for a realistic > number that wont cramp me, and wont waste too much space. I am planning > on 1GB, so it will be big enough to hold the contents of a 700MB CD ISO. > > I have no idea how much of /var I need, other than I like to install > various packages to try them out, and I would not want to limit > something like a webserver or email server if I chose to run one for > limited use. A friend took the default install suggestions for a > machine he planned to do some web development on, and said his /var was > way too small (they were new to FreeBSD also). I am guessing 5GB for > /var would allow me to run a mail-server (for personal use) and > Apache+extensions for limited website developement > > A swap of 1GB is fine, I'm not sure I've ever actually used any swap on > my machines that had more than 128MB. > > I want /usr to be as big as possible (obviously), so my primary user > account will have as much space as possible in /use/home/. > > Should I use: > > / = 1GB > /swap = 1GB > /var = 5GB > /usr = rest (63GB) > > ? > > thanks! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >