From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 14:41:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29CBF37B41A for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:41:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-151.wobline.de [212.68.69.159]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id g05Mexg24988; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:40:59 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g05MfdX27181; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:41:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g05MfB787055; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:41:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:40:35 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: Matthew Graybosch Cc: dan leeds , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: OS installation Message-ID: <20020105234035.B86927@tisys.org> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Graybosch , dan leeds , FreeBSD Questions References: <20020105185034.98254.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com> <20020105160949.2e5a0e7e.matthew@starbreaker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020105160949.2e5a0e7e.matthew@starbreaker.net>; from matthew@starbreaker.net on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:09:49PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD jodie.ncptiddische.net 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-Machine-Uptime: 11:31PM up 10:58, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01 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 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