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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?
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On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 11:14:15PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote:
> (redirected to -questions)
>
> As Marty Leisner wrote:
>
>> 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