From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 04:15:46 2003 Return-Path: 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 D7C3E16A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apate.telenet-ops.be (apate.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B2443FF9 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:15:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malenki@pandora.be) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apate.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 4289E37EF8 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:15:43 +0200 (MEST) Received: from guilmot2cimcs9 (D57650F9.kabel.telenet.be [213.118.80.249]) by apate.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id DFA2237EC3 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:15:42 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <003101c37b7a$b7155140$f95076d5@guilmot2cimcs9> From: "Guilmot Mike" To: References: <000401c37b74$003e94f0$0200a8c0@tabby> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:15:47 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 Subject: Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:15:47 -0000 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