From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 16: 3:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yuha.menta.net (yuha.menta.net [212.78.128.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B101837B41D for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:03:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from gibson.menta.net ([212.78.128.22]) by yuha.menta.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GPFUXR00.55Z for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 01:05:51 +0100 Received: from klamath.local ([62.57.120.44]) by gibson.menta.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GPFUMY00.3MS for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:59:22 +0100 Received: (from juli@localhost) by klamath.local (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0504Dt79719 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 01:04:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from juli) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 01:04:13 +0100 From: Julio Merino To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice on creating partitions Message-ID: <20020105010413.A79685@klamath.local> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020105004433.2a0f19ca.fxn@isoco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020105004433.2a0f19ca.fxn@isoco.com>; from fxn@isoco.com on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:44:33AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD klamath.local 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE 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 --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:44:33AM +0100, F.Xavier Noria wrote: > I've got a new computer with RAM 256 DDR and 21GB of its hard disk > reserved for FreeBSD. >=20 > 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 /. >=20 > 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: >=20 > / 200MB > swap 800MB > /var 300MB + SoftUpdates > /usr + SoftUpdates Everything seems fine to me except /usr. Make it smaller, around 4GB or less. And then, make the rest of space a nice /home partition. My /usr is 3.5GB and it is still 45% used, with _lots_ (too much) applications installed... > and /tmp would be symlinked to /usr/tmp to make sure I do not run out of Use MFS for /tmp; it's cooler ;) mount -t mfs /dev/swappartition /tmp HTH > 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? >=20 > -- fxn >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 La ignorancia es la felicidad. Julio Merino (Slink) --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8NkL9zz00ZOPKycwRAqfjAJ46uVsbYZGJS2HvNqi9Z9xqiM8i8wCfbpP+ Wq2OPH8QsgasNYbfkseex0s= =SQuU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message