From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 4 19:10:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C5D16A41F for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:10:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB56D43D64 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:10:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so518392nzo for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:10:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-mobile:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FQi1fTnMAY49/ljIacrjq6t8w7tsHmaR3RyTnGx6AdTS5hM1IITNtYTiG8coRkqv4MMp+gv38nI4Y1hwtc25hY+Sy9E/gmf6adq1vcGh/Cpe+MynuUCaclFUcHys45818cVN67Zd/BlXWJXX2+uYggyC2rd302Pggd9yWlaw9x8= Received: by 10.36.3.15 with SMTP id 15mr4673940nzc; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:10:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ( [203.145.188.145]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 23sm3252703nzn.2005.12.04.11.10.00; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:10:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43933EEC.5060701@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:39:32 +0530 From: Subhro Organization: IBM Advanced Career Education User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wrangled References: <43933801.6000602@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <43933801.6000602@verizon.net> X-Mobile: +919831064613 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:10:12 -0000 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/. > > 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 =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-----------------------------------------------------