From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 2 07:50:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA12463 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:50:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA12423 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id JAA16959; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:49:37 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199607021449.JAA16959@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: What is the best way to setup a drive To: root@friday.keanesea.com (Mission Control) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:49:37 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mission Control" at Jul 2, 96 00:27:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm curios what the recomended > drive setup is I have two hard > drives a 540 and a 1.6 How would > you divi up the space I will have > about 55 Users to setup on it but > none of them need much disk space > because they are all just on it for > mail. It may sound silly, but... I usually partition disks in the following way. 40M / 60M swap (unless you expect to run a lot of progs, then 160 or 260M) 80M /usr 100M /usr/local (unless you expect to have a lot of progs, then 200M or 300M) 120M /var (more if you plan to have a LOT of mail in mailboxes) 140M /var/spool (if you plan on doing lots of mail or UUCP _ONLY_ otherwise don't bother with this partition) Split the rest between /usr/src and /home, as needed... This has the advantage of being quick, easy, and generally chops up a 540M root disk pretty well. Disadvantages: you'll probably have to put X11 someplace else (I usually choose /usr/local and make a symlink), and there isn't enough space for /usr/obj if you are doing a world build. ... JG