From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 12:56:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0912637C031 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:56:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA15081; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:55:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:55:13 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: James A Wilde Cc: Conrad Sabatier , Scott , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Help with partitioning schemes In-Reply-To: <000b01bf9aeb$6c5d0210$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, James A Wilde wrote: > Useful analysis, thanks, Conrad. But what about /opt? I don't have your > background, but I seem to see a lot of stuff which goes to /opt. Or does one > make /opt a symlink to /usr? What goes in /opt? I think that's an -ism from a different os.... It is, however, useful to have a separate slice, if you have one available, for /usr/local or /usr/home or whatever you think you might need. If you reinstall, the slice (dos partition) is destroyed. If you have a separate /usr/local, including /usr/local/home, you can keep your home directories and installed software and whatever else you choose to stash there and reinstall /, /var, /usr. With this scheme /usr needs to have space for /usr/src and /usr/obj (maybe 200+ megabytes each) if you want to rebuilt the system from source; you might want room for /usr/ports there too, which needs space for at least the distfiles it's currently working with. That might be another 150 megs or so, assuming you have somewhere else to stash distfiles you want to keep. Annelise > mvh/regards > > James > > < snip > > > > 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. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message