Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:40:35 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net> Cc: dan leeds <shadylane258@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OS installation Message-ID: <20020105234035.B86927@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <20020105160949.2e5a0e7e.matthew@starbreaker.net>; from matthew@starbreaker.net on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:09:49PM -0500 References: <20020105185034.98254.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com> <20020105160949.2e5a0e7e.matthew@starbreaker.net>
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:09:49PM -0500, Matthew Graybosch stood up and spoke: > > You'll have to format your drive into at least one "slice" and then break > that slice into filesystems. I recommend a separate filesystem for /, /usr, > swap, and /home. Somebody suggested using the swap partition as /tmp, > mounting it as an MFS filesystem (Memory Filesystem). I haven't done this > myself, but it sounds like a cool idea. About the filesystems: I guess it is highly important that one gets this right by hand. When using FreeBSD's auto-defaults, it creates filesystems for /, /usr and /var. However, the sizing of these is weird. While I agree with sysinstall that most space should be devoted to /usr in case only these three filesystems are wanted, I guess that sysinstall's default of only assigning around 19 MB for /var even on a 60 GB hard disk might soon lead to trouble for many usage scenarios. So, I guess it's worthwhile to manually plan filesystem sizes and not fall back on FreeBSD's defaults... Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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