Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:15:47 +0200 From: "Guilmot Mike" <malenki@pandora.be> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home) Message-ID: <003101c37b7a$b7155140$f95076d5@guilmot2cimcs9> References: <000401c37b74$003e94f0$0200a8c0@tabby>
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Michael Vondung wrote: > I'm trying to figure out a decent partitioning layout for a > workstation. The system has an ~80GB disk. After /, /var, /tmp and > swap, I have 70GB left. I'm wondering how to split these between /usr > and /home. Ironically, it is more space than I seem to need. The box > has only one user (me), I do not have a fast enough connection to > download large amounts audio or video files. I plan to run the KDE3 > desktop environment with most of its applications (this is still well > under 1.5GB), assorted other software, Wine, two or three Windows > apps if they'll run. > > I'm torn between various options here, and would appreciate your > input: > > 35GB for each, /usr and /home > 25GB for /home and 45GB for /home > 70GB for both together (no /home partition) > > Or something completely different? I'd like this to be "spacey" > enough so that I won't run out of room at some point in the future, > but 35GB for /usr seems unrealistically much (there won't be mail on > this system, it's fed by an IMAP server on a different machine). Then > again, 35GB for /home seems just as unrealistically much. > > Backup matters aside, is there a significant advantage of having a > separate /home partition at all? If not, just skipping /home and > using 70GB for /usr (including /usr/home) might be the most practical > and flexible approach? > > Thanks. This might sound stupid, but I did it like this: Whole partition on /usr, and I made the home directories as: /usr/home/$USER instead of /home/$USER And I did not make a special partition for /usr/home, since I did not know how much space I would need. Maybe you could try that out too ... Kind regards, Guilmot Mike
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