Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:34:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, S?ren Neigaard <neigaard@e-box.dk> Subject: Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk Message-ID: <200209271434.g8REY9VG040653@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <10427231031.20020925011007@e-box.dk>
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S?ren Neigaard <neigaard@e-box.dk> wrote: > I have gotten a new old server. The default patitions only leaves > 128MB for '/', is that not a little to little? I still have a machine running 4-stable with only 50 Mbyte in the root file system. /var, /tmp and /usr are all separate, of course. Having said that, I'd recommend at least 150 Mbyte for the root file system on new installations. It leaves more room for various things, e.g. debug kernels (which are huge). I also like to keep several generations of backup copies of /etc on my root file system (call me paranoid). Also, the space required by kernel modules seems to be growing fast. Another point: If you enable soft-updates on your root file system, you'll run into trouble when you do an installworld and there's not much space left. > Do you guys have any recommendations? I will offcause place most > things under '/usr', bu surely '/' must be able to contain quite some > MB's too, after all 'bin' and 'sbin' are placed under '/'. Depending on what you're going to use that machine for, it might even be a good idea not to make /usr a separate file system. In that case, of course, the root file system should be a lot larger. Of course, /var and /tmp should always be separate from the root file system. Other candidates are /home and possibly /usr/local. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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