From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 10:34:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFE037B56F for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:34:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA39107; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:33:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:33:31 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Scott Subject: RE: Help with partitioning schemes Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Mar-00 Scott wrote: > The last time I tried to install FreeBSD the installer offered its own > default > partition mapping. Not knowing the proper sizes, I chose the defaults. > > What recomended partition mappings do people recommend for a system > which will be FreeBSD-only (6 Gig drive) and why do you choose your > scheme? I've done my share of FreeBSD installs over the last several years :-) and here's the strategy I've come up with: 1) The default for / is, I find, a bit on the low side. I usually shoot for at least 64 MB (128 MB is even better). This allows for several custom kernels to reside on /, if you're into customizing and fine-tuning your kernel from time to time, as well as providing more space for /tmp, if you'd rather not symlink /tmp to some other partition. 2) Unless you're planning on running INN or doing more than the usual amount of logging, or something else that makes heavy use of /var, 128 MB for /var shuld be more than enough. You might even get by with just 64 MB for /var, but I feel more comfortable with a little more breathing room than that. :-) 3) Swap space should be at least double your RAM, 3x or 4x RAM is even better. 3) The main point of all of this is to allow as much space as possible for /usr, where most stuff will be installed. So, create /, /var, and swap first, then allocate whatever's left to /usr. Hope this helps. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message