From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 15:56:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0423737B491 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:56:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1976F16F; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:56:26 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: F.Xavier Noria , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice on creating partitions Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:56:25 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020105004433.2a0f19ca.fxn@isoco.com> In-Reply-To: <20020105004433.2a0f19ca.fxn@isoco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020104235626.1976F16F@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> 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 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 + 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