Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:37:25 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question Message-ID: <4B3A3045.3050907@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <20091229162711.GA38738@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <4B3927EB.4030802@optiplex-networks.com> <6201873e0912281420n590b173dtac94f9936cca6e3@mail.gmail.com> <4B393463.5060504@netscape.net> <6201873e0912281504j552d6351mf64d8e566d54bcef@mail.gmail.com> <20091229142310.GD90870@Alex1.lan> <4B3A1E1A.1040506@netscape.net> <20091229162711.GA38738@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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[...] > > What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: > > # ln -s /usr/home /home > > ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from > the root partition. > > So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap. > > How I'd slice up the disk: > > 2GB for / > 2GB for swap > 2GB for /var > 34GB for /usr > Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to have /var and /usr filesystems separate?? I guess it must be similar to the way Solaris handles things when UFS based (not ZFS)..... The /home partition then is very similar to Solaris in that /export/home is considered the user directory. Means BSD stores /home in /usr/home?? > > > Should be OK but /tmp symlinked to /usr/tmp as some things can really > fill up /tmp. For example, IIRC OpenOffice needs gigs of temp space > to build. > OpenOffice or IIRC is for GUI based usage and not CLI. Since this will be a simple server no GUI or work will be done on the machine itself in terms of keyboard/mouse setup. Normally I work through SSH so will be much easier once I have network connectivity up and running after initial install :-) > > > Should work fine. Just remember to make your /home and /tmp symlinks > as soon as you first boot up. > > Regards, > > Thanks!!! --Kaya
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