From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 19:42:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA28157 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA28149 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.18]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <53426(1)>; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:42:22 PDT Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com [13.231.133.90]) by mailhost.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA01283; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 22:41:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA22984; Tue, 9 Sep 97 22:41:03 EDT Message-Id: <9709100241.AA22984@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Greg Lehey Cc: Joerg Wunsch , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How should I partition my disk? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Sep 1997 19:28:01 PDT." <19970910115801.03392@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:41:02 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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 I'm installing 3.0 snap right now... >From prior experience, I installed freebsd at the top of my disk with no problem (I'm using system commander). I ended up: / - 50 /usr - 250 25 Mbyte swap (I have 48 Mbyte ram, and I want run an X server) /usr/src - 300 Mbyte /usr/local - the rest marty