Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:39:32 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: wrangled <wrangled@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make? Message-ID: <43933EEC.5060701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43933801.6000602@verizon.net> References: <43933801.6000602@verizon.net>
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wrangled sat at his 'puter and typed on 12/5/2005 0:10: > > I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I > plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have > 512MB RAM. > > According to this page: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html > > > I should use: > > / = 100MB > /swap = 1GB > /var = 50MB > /usr = rest (68GB) > > On past FreeBSD installs, I would occasionaly do things as root, and > ran out of space in /root. Since then, on desktop machines (with > 250GB drives), I would make / be 4GB. On my lapatop, I wouldn't want > to give up 4 of my 70 gigs if I didn't have to. So I am looking for a > realistic number that wont cramp me, and wont waste too much space. I > am planning on 1GB, so it will be big enough to hold the contents of a > 700MB CD ISO. That is a VERY VERY BAD idea. It is not recommended to do ANYTHING as root which can be done as some other non privileged user. > > I have no idea how much of /var I need, other than I like to install > various packages to try them out, and I would not want to limit > something like a webserver or email server if I chose to run one for > limited use. A friend took the default install suggestions for a > machine he planned to do some web development on, and said his /var > was way too small (they were new to FreeBSD also). I am guessing 5GB > for /var would allow me to run a mail-server (for personal use) and > Apache+extensions for limited website developement Generally the maximum space is eaten up by the logs and the databases (if any) hosted on the system. > > A swap of 1GB is fine, I'm not sure I've ever actually used any swap > on my machines that had more than 128MB. Depends solely on the applications you are trying to run on the box. > > I want /usr to be as big as possible (obviously), so my primary user > account will have as much space as possible in /use/home/<account>. > > Should I use: > > / = 1GB > /swap = 1GB > /var = 5GB > /usr = rest (63GB) This is my personal scheme for my desktop which hosts my personal website and a very very small database which is basically my phone directory and appointment schedules. / = 128M <swap>=2G /var = 2G /var/tmp = 128M /usr = rest. /tmp is symlinked to /var/tmp. Now my system specs: Athlon 64Fx-55 1G DDR 400M RAM 3*160G SATA150 Western Digital in RAID 5 ASUS K8N-SLI DX motherboard. Again, nothing is absolute. Your requirement would dictate your labeling scheme. Thanks S. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- \ / | Subhro Sankha Kar \./ | GSM: +919831010002 -- Fax: +919831832913 (0Y0) | MSN: subhro@subhro.org -- Yahoo!: subhro82 -ooO--(_)--Ooo-----------------------------------------------------
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