From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 06:27:44 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 9F2DB16A4D5 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC0543FE3 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:27:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8FDRgOg008348; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:27:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8FDRgas008347; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:27:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200309151327.h8FDRgas008347@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: michael@vcommunities.net (Michael Vondung) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:27:41 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <000401c37b74$003e94f0$0200a8c0@tabby> from "Michael Vondung" at Sep 15, 2003 12:27:37 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 13:27:44 -0000 > > 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? There are some advantages of having separate root (/) /tmp and swap partitions. But, beyond that the major advantages of dividing up the rest of the space is limited to backup and isolating disk space that might be accessed by other people. In the old days it was a little different with limited addressing and limited size disks. You needed to spread things out over multiple disks more than different partitions on one disk. Generally I make root, swap, /tmp and something like /home (not always called that) and put everything that might grow such as /var/log and /var/spool, /usr/ports and /usr/local in to that /home (as /home/var.log, /home/var.spool, /home/usr.ports nd /home/usr.local) with links to them. That way I don't have to guess well in advance about sizes for these things. They can just kind of grow as needed. Then, of course, it is nice to have a hole nother large disk to dedicate to a big disk hungry project such as sound files and editing. \__/ ////jerry > > Thanks. >