From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 3 14:11:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ebola.biohz.net (ebola.biohz.net [206.80.1.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70CA37B4CF for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:11:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from flu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.biohz.net (Postfix) with SMTP id EBCC53A2C1 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:11:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <00ad01c045e3$10f5a280$0402010a@biohz.net> From: "Renaud Waldura" To: References: <003c01c044ed$292e1e00$490822d1@user> <20001102085251.Q20567@fw.wintelcom.net> <3A022F7B.521F94C4@newsguy.com> Subject: Re: Is this how to use Freebsd? Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:11:50 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Don Muller ; 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