Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:54:15 -0500 From: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OS installation Message-ID: <20020105175415.71c7457c.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <20020105234035.B86927@tisys.org> References: <20020105185034.98254.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com> <20020105160949.2e5a0e7e.matthew@starbreaker.net> <20020105234035.B86927@tisys.org>
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--SiZf+PyA4V=.?4O' Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:40:35 +0100 Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> wrote: > 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. If you've got a 60GB drive, then I'd allocate 500MB to /, 1GB to /var, and split the rest between /usr and /home. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net GnuPG Key ID: 0x45BC4581 "Sex, Unix, and rock 'n roll" -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 G! d- s:+ a-- C+++ UB++++ P+ L+++ E W++ N+ o K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b++++ DI+++ D+ G++ e* h+ r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --SiZf+PyA4V=.?4O' Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8N4QcXG3c5kW8RYERAjo3AKCSoeZdED/pzr9+L/sUQXPfDh1TgACdHRJ6 GdQ1F/VQ6gUMK6XAYPN8vH4= =XKOG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SiZf+PyA4V=.?4O'-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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