From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 1 15: 1:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from console.prisa.com (gatekeeper.prisa.com [204.94.67.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E74AE14EF0 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:01:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nschein@prisa.com) From: "Nathaniel Schein" To: "Freebsd Questions" Subject: The size of root and swap Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:01:17 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a question concerning the suggested size of the root partitition. Somewhere in a man page or Complete FreeBSD version 2.x.x I remember a suggestion that the root partition should be small in order to reduce the possibility of corruption. Is this really a factor? What happens if somebody dumps a huge file in /tmp? Should the / directory's size vary depending on the availability of space? What is the suggested size and why? Also, it used to be that the amount of swap was 2x the memory. Is this still true or since memory commonly 128-256MB+ is there a suggested upper bound? Nathaniel Schein System Administrator mailto:nschein@prisa.com Failure is not an option... it is integrated with every Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message