Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:36:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, gjb@comkey.com.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk partition sizes (was: Debug kernel by default (was: System size with -g)) Message-ID: <19990407113649.X2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990407024705.A4453@marder-1.localhost>; from Mark Ovens on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 02:47:05AM %2B0100 References: <19990407082416.H2142@lemis.com> <199904062311.QAA96785@bubba.whistle.com> <19990407084453.L2142@lemis.com> <19990407014706.X1360@marder-1.localhost> <19990407104608.T2142@lemis.com> <19990407024705.A4453@marder-1.localhost>
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On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 2:47:05 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 10:46:08AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 1:47:06 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >>> On Tuesday, 6 April 1999 at 16:11:24 -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: >>>> Greg Lehey writes: >>> My new HD arrives tomorrow so I'm going to do a fresh install >>> (FreeBSD will be spread over the 2 disks). >> >> Sounds reasonable. Three file systems and 256 MB swap? >> > > I plan (since your answer above) a 64MB /, 32MB /var, 256 MB swap > on the first disk and 3.8GB /usr on the second disk (I need the > other ~700MB to save my existing /usr stuff, easier than restoring from > the tape backup). > > Does that seem a reasonable setup to you? This would only work if your existing /usr is already there; otherwise it would be more difficult putting it there than backing up to tape. What are you going to do with the 700 MB when the changeover is finished? If I were using this space, I'd keep /usr on the rest of the first disk and make the second disk /home. Put /var as a symlink to wherever you anticipate having more space. Don't expect /var to remain small. I don't think of my /var hierarchy as being large, but: $ BLOCKSIZE=K du -Ls /var 1094308 /var Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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