Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:56:25 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: F.Xavier Noria <fxn@isoco.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice on creating partitions Message-ID: <20020104235626.1976F16F@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20020105004433.2a0f19ca.fxn@isoco.com> References: <20020105004433.2a0f19ca.fxn@isoco.com>
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On Friday 04 January 2002 02:44 pm, F.Xavier Noria wrote: > 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 <rest> + 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 > Those sizes are fine. If your machine is going to be multi-user you might think about a seperate /home. That gives you more control for quota and exports etc... Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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