Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 09:48:14 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> To: "Ilan y." <ilany@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk partitioning Message-ID: <3E1942CE.5050606@liwing.de> References: <1041841202.1008.9.camel@.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com>
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Ilan y. wrote:
> hi, i need general information setting my harddrive for a
> desktop/workstation system...
> currently my system is set in the following way:
>
> / 1.2 Gb
> /usr 6 Gb
> /swap 500 Mb
> /mnt/dos 12 Gb
The swap size depends on the size of your RAM. I use at least ramsize
sized swap spaces. Usually 100M should be more than enough for /, but I
strongly recomment either to create a /var slice or a link from /var ->
/usr/var (you should know the consequences when doing that or - if not -
don't do it)
> i now know that 1.5 Gb is a little too much for "/"
> /usr got filled up pretty fast - i run many applications..and file
> sharing applications
>
> my real question here is what slice should i make to hold applications
> that will survive after an upgrade of the system....
> some applications are installed under /usr/X11R6/bin....while some are
> under /usr/local/bin......and some under other places....i've read the
> handbook and it gives no useful information ( well, at least in a
> language i can understand)...and also looked for some info in the "unix
> bible" book....
The applications doesn't matter - you reinstall them anytime. Backup
your configuration! (/etc/, /usr/local/etc/, /usr/X11R6/etc/,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ (selective))
> if anyone can reply with any information on how to install applications
> in one place only it would be a great help....i know that PREFIX has to
> be set with a configure script but what about configuration files......
> thanks in advance
> Ilan Y.
>
Jens
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