Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:22:17 -0500 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Nathaniel Schein' <nschein@prisa.com> Cc: Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: The size of root and swap Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D3C@site2s1>
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Nathaniel, This has been hashed about periodically on the mailing list, so 1st off I would suggest searching the mailing list archives for some good information. Also, yes it is still suggested to keep the root on the small side. You want enough space to hold the kernel, /etc, /root and the like. You would be best served to have separate partitions for /tmp and /var, or symlink them to your /home or /usr partitions. As far as swap goes, I do know it needs to be more than the available memory. Beyond that it truly depends on what you are doing with the machine. I have 128MB of ram in my system, and I have yet to touch swap since upgrading it to that. So x2 mem would be overkill for my situation. Hope this helps. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathaniel Schein [SMTP:nschein@prisa.com] > Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 6:01 PM > To: Freebsd Questions > Subject: The size of root and swap > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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