Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:45:12 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: John Oxley <john@yoafrica.com> Cc: Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended partitioning Message-ID: <20051017034512.GA58981@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051016125050.GA30303@yoafrica.com> References: <d9d7f5a0510151401t194ba5f5w9687d40c333b22b9@mail.gmail.com> <20051016125050.GA30303@yoafrica.com>
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On 2005-10-16 14:50, John Oxley <john@yoafrica.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 05:01:01PM -0400, Teo De Las Heras wrote: > > Part Size > > / 10G - for both the / and /usr files > > (swap) 2G > > /var 10G - Web server, print spool, other log files?? > > /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup > > /home 50G - for all user files > > /home/teo 40G - For my files and easy backup > > *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition > > I'm new to FreeBSD/*Nix so all criticism is welcome. > > Keep / small, around 200MB, and split user from this. You'll understand > why as soon as something nasty happens while you're writing to /usr and > the machine falls over. You can still boot because / is mainly static. > > put 10-20 gigs in usr. When you build ports, they use space in /usr (by > default. You can change this) which is why I say 20 gigs. > > 256M in /tmp is fine A very good suggestion, if you can spare a bit of memory (or swap) is to use a memory-backed fs for /tmp (see the ``tmpmfs*'' options in rc.conf manual page): % man.rc.conf Even a swap-backed /tmp may be a good idea, if you don't really want to allocate a large root partition, just for the sake of /tmp files.
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