Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:11:50 -0800 From: "Renaud Waldura" <renaud@waldura.com> To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is this how to use Freebsd? Message-ID: <00ad01c045e3$10f5a280$0402010a@biohz.net> References: <003c01c044ed$292e1e00$490822d1@user> <20001102085251.Q20567@fw.wintelcom.net> <3A022F7B.521F94C4@newsguy.com>
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Of course, if this is a workstation you're setting up, don't bother with any of that and just use a single / partition (and maybe a MFS /tmp). No need to be sophisticated. --Renaud ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Don Muller <dmuller@lcc.net>; <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:22 PM Subject: Re: Is this how to use Freebsd? > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > That's a typlical 'Linux' partitioning choice, personally I dislike it > > and prefer something link: > > > > 120M / > > 300M /var > > 2xRAM swap (limit 1 gig) > > rest /usr > > I like having a separate /tmp. / can then be 50 or 60 Mb. But, > particularly, a 300Mb /var depends heavily on what the machine is being > used for. It could well languish with 290 Mb free for some kinds of > servers, and particularly for desktop machines. > > > /usr may be split into /usr and /usr/home, if so /usr usually gets > > about 1.5gigs and /usr/home gets the rest. > > /usr and /home, please. :-) That's our default. > > > A couple of suggestions: > > > > 1) please wrap lines at 70 characters when posting to the list. > > Furthermore, DO NOT send html-formatted messages. I, for one, delete > without even reading all html-formatted messages. > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > capo@world.wide.bsdconspiracy.net > > He has been convicted of criminal possession of a clue with intent to > distribute. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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