Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:58:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How should I partition my disk? Message-ID: <19970910115801.03392@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19970909231415.KI43369@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 11:14:15PM %2B0200 References: <9709091907.AA22307@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> <19970909231415.KI43369@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 11:14:15PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote:
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> As Marty Leisner wrote:
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>> I have a 6.4 gig IDE quantum bigfoot...I'm willing to give
>> about 1.2 gig to freebsd...
>>
>> When I have enough space, I should be able to install everything,
>> including sources (not ports).
>>
>> Any reasonable ideas for a basic install (i.e. sizes and mount points)
>> ?
>
> You could simply accept sysinstall's defaults. Just select `A'.
He only wants to dedicate 1.2 GB to FreeBSD. 'A' uses the whole disk.
I agree with Jörg, of course, but if you're really only giving a
fraction, I suppose you should look out for these things:
1. If you're booting from this disk, you should ensure that the
*entire* root slice is in the first 504 MB of the disk.
2. Use a 45 MB root partition, 150 MB swap, and the rest in /usr.
Create /var/usr, copy /var to /var/usr, and put a symlink from
/var to /var/usr.
Greg
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