Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:28:54 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> 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: <20051204192854.GA6312@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <43933801.6000602@verizon.net> References: <43933801.6000602@verizon.net>
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--AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:40:01PM -0500, wrangled wrote: >=20 > I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I=20 > plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have=20 > 512MB RAM. >=20 > According to this page: >=20 > =20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.h= tml >=20 > I should use: >=20 > / =3D 100MB > /swap =3D 1GB > /var =3D 50MB > /usr =3D rest (68GB) Some apps make heavy use of /tmp. It's wise to have that on a separate slice.=20 > I want /usr to be as big as possible (obviously), so my primary user=20 > account will have as much space as possible in /use/home/<account>. I'd make /home into a separate slice. Easier for backups. You can easily reinstall ports, but if you loose your personal data... > Should I use: >=20 > / =3D 1GB > /swap =3D 1GB > /var =3D 5GB > /usr =3D rest (63GB) Running 6.0-STABLE on my amd64 workstation with 260 ports installed,=20 'df -m' gives the following: Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a 495 77 379 17% / /dev/ar0s1g 123067 21700 91521 19% /home /dev/ar0s1e 495 0 456 0% /tmp /dev/ar0s1f 19832 3601 14643 20% /usr /dev/ar0s1d 1963 55 1751 3% /var So I'd say, give / 0.5 GB, /usr 5GB, /tmp .5 GB, /var 1.5 GB and give the rest to /home. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDk0N2EnfvsMMhpyURAq/1AJwJYi+A3IutH5I2IeueytQBiPlWcQCcDaEY ESAtbYbwiLUiR06I75rx8/M= =YrqH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--
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