From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 20:02:07 2004 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 11C9816A4CF for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:02:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from whoweb.com (whoweb.com [216.38.168.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6204243D5C for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:02:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jon@whoweb.com) Received: from whoweb.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whoweb.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7IK1mof056566; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:01:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by whoweb.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7IK1mQS056565; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:01:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:01:48 -0400 (EDT) From: jon Message-Id: <200408182001.i7IK1mQS056565@whoweb.com> To: adminf@yummysoup.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2001.192.168.0.123.1092850098.squirrel@webmail.yummysoup.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.x /usr Partitioning advice 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: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:02:07 -0000 >I'm planning on making two partions for data found on /usr: >Does this stretegy sound at all intelligent? Yes, it sounds like a good plan for all the reasons you stated. >I'm planning on making /usr 4G, and /usr2 6G. Does that sound sane? I'm running 5.2.1 with X, apache, samba, and 162 ports installed and df is reporting usage at 2.5 gig including the usr/src directory. It sounds like under your configuration a 4G /usr will result in a little less than 50% usage, which is reasonable to allow growth although it could be argued that /usr could be decreased a bit. My current src tree is weighing in at 375MB. My ports directory is coming in at 351MB. So 6G for the src disk sounds like a lot. But disk space is cheap so if you've got it, go for it. J