From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 02:55:25 2003 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 EF42916A4B3 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay8-f29.bay8.hotmail.com [64.4.27.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448D143FD7 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:55:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unixtools@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:55:25 -0700 Received: from 202.63.172.99 by by8fd.bay8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:55:24 GMT X-Originating-IP: [202.63.172.99] X-Originating-Email: [unixtools@hotmail.com] From: "Sunil Sunder Raj" To: malenki@pandora.be Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:25:24 +0530 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Sep 2003 09:55:25.0025 (UTC) FILETIME=[FB587510:01C37DCA] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home) 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, 18 Sep 2003 09:55:26 -0000 Hi, No one want the /usr partition to get full. You don't know what users may put in the /home partition. So the best option will be create two partitions with about 25% to /usr and 75% to the other. Regards SSR >From: "Guilmot Mike" >To: >Subject: Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home) >Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:15:47 +0200 > >Michael Vondung wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out a decent partitioning layout for a > > workstation. The system has an ~80GB disk. After /, /var, /tmp and > > swap, I have 70GB left. I'm wondering how to split these between /usr > > and /home. Ironically, it is more space than I seem to need. The box > > has only one user (me), I do not have a fast enough connection to > > download large amounts audio or video files. I plan to run the KDE3 > > desktop environment with most of its applications (this is still well > > under 1.5GB), assorted other software, Wine, two or three Windows > > apps if they'll run. > > > > I'm torn between various options here, and would appreciate your > > input: > > > > 35GB for each, /usr and /home > > 25GB for /home and 45GB for /home > > 70GB for both together (no /home partition) > > > > Or something completely different? I'd like this to be "spacey" > > enough so that I won't run out of room at some point in the future, > > but 35GB for /usr seems unrealistically much (there won't be mail on > > this system, it's fed by an IMAP server on a different machine). Then > > again, 35GB for /home seems just as unrealistically much. > > > > Backup matters aside, is there a significant advantage of having a > > separate /home partition at all? If not, just skipping /home and > > using 70GB for /usr (including /usr/home) might be the most practical > > and flexible approach? > > > > Thanks. > >This might sound stupid, but I did it like this: > >Whole partition on /usr, and I made the home directories as: > >/usr/home/$USER instead of /home/$USER > >And I did not make a special partition for /usr/home, since I did not know >how much space I would need. >Maybe you could try that out too ... > > >Kind regards, > >Guilmot Mike > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ Interact with peers. Learn from experts. http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/teched/index.asp Be tech-empowered!