Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:58:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jerry Blancher <flerll@kaschynna.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Chris Wianecki <kw@perfekt.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dividing HD to partitions for FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980406105508.27696A-100000@kaschynna.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405203053.195A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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The way I handled all my problems of HD room is allocate how-ever much room ya want for swap, then allocate the rest to mount on / that way it will build the other directories that it needs, and every directory has use of the / (root) mount's space. I never have to worry about running out of space in any directory (unless my disk is too small) Jerry _______________________________________________________________________ Kaschynna Communications mailto:flerll@kaschynna.com Internet Presence Provider mailto:flerll@drachenforge.com Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 208.765.9312 208.769.7337 Interactive MU* Hosting http://kaschynna.com/mudhost/ Drachen Forge MUD-telnet drachenforge.com 8000-http://drachenforge.com/ On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Chris Wianecki wrote: > > > Hello, I am very new to FreeBSD, I have 4 gig HD and I installed the > > HD to partitions during the installation of FreeBSD. I chosen > > automatic assign, and what the install program set was / 30MB swap > > 137MB /var 30MB /usr all the remaining space Everything would be fine > > but I got lots of errors that /var has not enough space, I am > > How many users are on your system? If it is only you, then something is > going on that is eating up that space. Are you storing files in '/var'? > You should not. The same goes for '/'. > > The '/' partition should not grow in size very much at all. The biggest > consumer of "variable" disc space under '/' is probably the '/etc' > directory. All of the other files are pretty much unchanging. > > > suspecting that / dir would run our of free space pretty soon if it > > '/' should not run out of space per the above. Store all of your > userland tarballs and such under '/usr'. I personally keep all of my > distribution files under '/usr/ports' because that is where Jordan saw > fit to put them. > > See 'man hier' for info on how and why the FreeBSD hierarchy is like it > is. > > > didn't already. Can you advise me what is the best solution for the > > partition sizes? I have 64mb of ram, so I understand that swap should > > be like 128mb or 137 as it was chosen. I will probably want to > > allocate 160MB, but I am not sure what I should do next, how much > > aprox I should allocate for / or /usr or for /var also I want > > something to be left for user directories as well if possible. Thank > > you for your help. > > > > Chris > > For specific numbers listen to someone besides me. My answer was focused > in on one small point that may not apply to you. Because you stated you > were "new" to FreeBSD I jumped to a conclusion. > > Here is one consideration. If you have 100 users, and you want them to > be allowed a 3MB mail spool file, then you should allot more than 300MB > to '/var'. > > Have fun, | Stop warning me about the latest virus. Learn more... > Jason Wells | http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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