Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:37:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How should I partition my disk? Message-ID: <19970910123751.13311@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <9709100241.AA22984@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>; from Marty Leisner on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 07:41:02PM -0800 References: <19970910115801.03392@lemis.com> <9709100241.AA22984@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 07:41:02PM -0800, Marty Leisner wrote: > >> >> 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 Plenty. > /usr - 250 Wouldn't be enough for me. It depends on what you want to do. > 25 Mbyte swap (I have 48 Mbyte ram, and I want run an X server) That doesn't sound like enough swap. I started recommending sizes like that, but there are plenty of new applications coming out which use lots of swap. I've just added another 200 MB of swap, just to be on the safe side! Greg
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