From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 4 19:17:59 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 7D9F216A41F for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:17:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deejy-pooh@ntlworld.com) Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C62B43D4C for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:17:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deejy-pooh@ntlworld.com) Received: from aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20051204191754.IYOM17804.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:17:54 +0000 Received: from cpc4-linc4-5-1-cust91.nott.cable.ntl.com ([82.25.112.91]) by aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20051204191754.CGFH16192.aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@cpc4-linc4-5-1-cust91.nott.cable.ntl.com> for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:17:54 +0000 From: Uncle Deejy-Pooh To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:17:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512041917.06438.deejy-pooh@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: The question that wont die: =?iso-8859-1?q?=A0What_size_parti?= =?iso-8859-1?q?tions_should_I_=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0make=3F?= 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 19:17:59 -0000 > >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. > > 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 > > 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. > > 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) Can't see the problem. If your 'doing things as root' , it doesn't mean that you have to save the output of whatever-it-is in the / directory. If you start to run short of space in var, or anywhere else, you could put it in /usr/var2, for example, and put a symlink in /var to it. Regards Deej