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Subject: Re: Feeback on partitioning
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Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm getting ready to set up a single system as a mail, print, web, and file
> server. I may be installing other applications but nothing as intense as
> Xorg. If at all, I'll probably just install some network monitoring tools.
> I'm placing all of these roles on a single system because it is only for my
> lab. I have a 160 GB to use and I'm thinking about laying out the partitions
> as follows:
>  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.

It should work fine.
Make sure your backup scheme will work with it.