From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 14:53:11 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 95F9D16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 14:53:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4503643DB8 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 14:53:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B47AC89E49 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 10:53:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: 6HbsZbvyPAV6/g7oex9lEq3yooTiAngr9AoA6XaZNRV9 1115304785 Received: from gumby.localhost (dsl-80-41-68-53.access.as9105.com [80.41.68.53]) by frontend3.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF8D5F for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 10:53:05 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 15:52:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505051256.j45Cu2rM009492@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <427A1ED5.9050507@donnacha.com> In-Reply-To: <427A1ED5.9050507@donnacha.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505051552.41644.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: How should I divvy up my HDDs? Suggestions Please. 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: Thu, 05 May 2005 14:53:11 -0000 On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:25, freebsd.org@donnacha.com wrote: > Jerry, thanks for your advice! > > > If all your accounts and web pages > > are really in /home and you have no databases, I would be inclined > > to put both /usr and /var in the 80GB drive and leave the other one > > for home directories and web pages. > > In The Complete FreeBSD, Greg Lehey suggests that it's a good idea to > place web pages in /var, I don't quite grasp why. Do you think it would > be a better idea to stick with the standard and leave web pages in /home? Possibly, he sees it as the kind of thing that should go in /var due to frequent changes. /var holds things that generate heavy file fragmentation, such as spool files, logs etc. > What about /tmp? Looking through this list's archives, I read that it's > considered more secure to place /tmp on a seperate partition from /, > would it be even more secure to place it on a seperate HDD? How big > should /tmp be? The precise size depends on your needs, people use values from a few hundred MB to a few GB, however generally applictions that need a lot of temporary storage will let you specify where it goes. / is probably the worst partition to put /tmp in. In FreeBSD the root partition is small and contains the critical files needed to get the system up into single user mode, so you can perform repairs. You want to reduce to risk of damaging it, and it's used without soft-updates or background checking, so it's not very efficient for writing anyway. /usr doesn't need to be all that big, a lot of people symlink out /usr/ports and /usr/src and have just 4GB - even on a desktop.