From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 20 19:16:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA8F16C047 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:16:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jvender@owensboro.net) Received: from zoot.cinergycom.net (zoot.cinergycom.net [216.135.3.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989E013C461 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:16:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jvender@owensboro.net) Received: from kntpin04-nas-03-s132.cinergycom.net ([216.135.25.132]) by zoot.cinergycom.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1HJaTe-0005th-C2; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:16:38 -0600 From: Joe Vender To: Sten Daniel Soersdal Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:15:29 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net> <45DB1C55.5050905@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45DB1C55.5050905@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702201315.30146.jvender@owensboro.net> X-CCC-Authenticated: jvender@owensboro.net zoot.cinergycom.net 216.135.25.132 20070220191638Z 638460e1c638123e451fcb52af7adaff X-CCC-Cleanmail-Virus-Signature: c0c07fc07f105af8094ea6e3b8747908 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:16:39 -0000 On Tuesday 20 February 2007 10:05, Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > Perhaps it is possible to reduce / to ~128 mb? boot up and see Right now, I'm running slackware, but if I remember correctly, the / partition contained about 40 to 60 Mb or data. > estimate that you need several mb free and estimate double of > /boot/kernel directory (if you install new kernel you get to keep the > old one, therefore estimate double that directory size). > Swap ... well for a successful crash dump you need as much as swap as > you have memory. I have 312Mb of usable RAM, so I made the swap around double that. > /var can be further reduced to perhaps 512mb or perhaps even less? I wasn't sure how much I'd need in /var, so I didn't want to undersize it too much. But, I don't spool large print jobs, and I set the logs to be trimmed regularly. > > Just a (cluttered) suggestion. > > The cool part about FreeBSD is what you can get away with, just by > symlinking (ln -s) a few folders here and there. After all, it's just > your desktop, right? Agreed. I'm just experimenting and learning at this point. Thanks for the suggestions, Sten. Joe