From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 0:47:25 2003 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 53ACE37B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 00:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3311D43EC2 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 00:47:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 60194 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2003 08:47:16 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Jan 2003 08:47:16 -0000 Message-ID: <3E1942CE.5050606@liwing.de> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 09:48:14 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ilan y." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk partitioning References: <1041841202.1008.9.camel@.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message