Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 09:08:11 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <3899FC4B.F06876A@S1.com> References: <00ed01bf6df1$c9568620$0200000a@danco.home> <20000203162431.A996@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Hullo Ben, > > Dan O'Connor wrote: > > > I'd do this: > > > > 64M - 128M for / > > I only use about 32MB for /, and it's always been enough so far. I > sometimes move root's home directory to /usr/home/root though, since > I > often dump loads of stuff there, forgetting it's filling up the root > filesystem. I hope you don't do this often :'/ If your device with /usr/home goes 'south' and you try to log in as root... guess what? No home directory for root anymore :'( This could make a relatively simple task _very_ complicated and needlessly ugly. Lessons to be learned? 1) leave root's home on the / partition; 2) don't "dump loads of stuff there". Put it on /tmp if youmust dump it via the root account. Better still, don't use root for anything othere than system administration, use a "user" account. hth, |-| > > > 256M swap > > remainder as /usr > > /var and /tmp symlinks to /usr/var and /usr/tmp, respectively. > > This I agree with, it's the way I've always done it (slightly different > amount for swap maybe, but somewhere around there). > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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