From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 20 19:38:27 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 2E92216A411 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:38:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0AE13C428 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:38:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 9354 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2007 19:38:26 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Feb 2007 19:38:26 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id DEC6428426; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:38:25 -0500 (EST) To: Joe Vender References: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:38:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net> (Joe Vender's message of "Mon\, 19 Feb 2007 23\:37\:12 -0600") Message-ID: <44vehwy5zi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 19:38:27 -0000 Joe Vender writes: > I've played around with the sizes, reducing /var to around 350Mb, / to around > 256Mb, and /tmp to around 256Mb leaving the space gained to /usr. In this > way, I got FreeBSD installed OK, but I'm considering installing it for a > final time and using it exclusively for my desktop after testing various > linuxes and FreeBSD and comparing them. So, I would like to get the sizes of > FreeBSD's slices optimized. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the user > community with a similar usage/size situation who can advise me. In a system that tight for space (for running KDE, anyway), I would just put all the space (aside from some swap) into a single root partition. The risks of something running away and filling a partition are much less of an issue than the risks of filling up a partition with legitimate data and needing to play games to keep everything installed. Greg Lehey has been recommending this approach in his books for at least a couple of editions now. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/