From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 29 16:37:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59502106568F for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:37:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samankaya@netscape.net) Received: from imr-ma02.mx.aol.com (imr-ma02.mx.aol.com [64.12.206.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144618FC12 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:37:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imo-da04.mx.aol.com (imo-da04.mx.aol.com [205.188.169.202]) by imr-ma02.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id nBTGbUD6008775; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:37:30 -0500 Received: from samankaya@netscape.net by imo-da04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id p.d64.46d2f9c3 (56030); Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:37:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.2.21] (dsl.dynamic81215233158.ttnet.net.tr [81.215.233.158]) by cia-md08.mx.aol.com (v127.7) with ESMTP id MAILCIAMD084-dade4b3a30463e; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:37:28 -0500 Message-ID: <4B3A3045.3050907@netscape.net> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:37:25 +0200 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 (Ubuntu-1.1.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Shute 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> In-Reply-To: <20091229162711.GA38738@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 81.215.233.158 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-AOL-SENDER: samankaya@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:37:41 -0000 [...] > > 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