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
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