From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 05:30:19 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 0840416A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F165843F93 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115381D0B39; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:30:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.133 ([10.202.2.133] helo=smtp.us2.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:30:16 -0400 Received: by smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 2434A79BD9; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:30:15 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Jud" To: "Michael Vondung" , "freebsd-questions" Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:30:15 -0400 X-Epoch: 1063629016 X-Sasl-enc: 3dTvWQP2b0i8b66SJTxwPQ References: <000401c37b74$003e94f0$0200a8c0@tabby> In-Reply-To: <000401c37b74$003e94f0$0200a8c0@tabby> Message-Id: <20030915123015.2434A79BD9@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> 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 12:30:19 -0000 On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:27:37 +0200, "Michael Vondung" said: > 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? No significant advantage to a separate partition that I know of. The primary disadvantage of too much partitioning, running out of room, doesn't seem to apply here either. Looks like it's just whatever you prefer. Jud