From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 8:34:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80ABA37B405 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:34:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 77227 invoked by uid 100); 13 Dec 2001 16:34:13 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15384.55429.649720.20833@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:34:13 -0600 To: Annelise Anderson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 Installation - Disk Space In-Reply-To: <123937367@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" 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 Annelise Anderson types: > If you have less than 600MB allowed for FreeBSD, just use swap and one > file system, /. > > If more allow 100MB for /, /var at 60MB (since you're not running a mail > server etc. for a lot of people), swap, and the rest for /usr. I hate to disagree with Annelise, but if you do what she suggests, you'll probably regret it later. Greg Lehey - and my experiences with FreeBSD the last few years - have convinced me that the only valid reason for creating extra file systems are administrative. So, unless you're planning on treating /, /var and /usr differently in some way, leave them all on the same file system. Otherwise, you're just creating more things to run out of space, and will wind up back here asking how to move space from one file system to another. My recommendation for new users is to create at most two file systems as well as swap: / and /home. Keep your private stuff on /home. That way, when you get a new release, you can do a "clean" install onto / without losing your data on /home. If you don't much space - where "much" depends on what you're planning on doing - having just one file system - / - is better. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message