From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 15:45:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.retemail.es (smtp04.iddeo.es [62.81.186.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE2F37B417 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from conway.localdomain ([62.174.22.217]) by smtp04.retemail.es (InterMail vM.5.01.03.02 201-253-122-118-102-20010403) with SMTP id <20020104234538.UFV4561.smtp04.retemail.es@conway.localdomain> for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:45:38 +0100 Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:44:33 +0100 From: F.Xavier Noria To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Advice on creating partitions Message-Id: <20020105004433.2a0f19ca.fxn@isoco.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a new computer with RAM 256 DDR and 21GB of its hard disk reserved for FreeBSD. I have no clue about what partitions should I create and what size should they have since in previous installations I just followed the 3xRAM rule for swap and the rest was under /. This is going to be an average desktop computer, for playing around, programming and so forth. After reading the relevant parts of the Handbook and "The Complete FreeBSD", I've come with this temptative settings: / 200MB swap 800MB /var 300MB + SoftUpdates /usr + SoftUpdates and /tmp would be symlinked to /usr/tmp to make sure I do not run out of space there (is that reason reasonable in fact?). I don't need to be conservative because I have a lot of room, would you think those are suitable partitions? -- fxn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message