From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 05:43:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F66A37B408 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 05:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail7.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1489743FE3 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 05:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: (qmail 9458 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2003 12:43:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buddydog.org) ([66.92.76.225]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Jun 2003 12:43:55 -0000 Message-ID: <3EF8478A.4000900@buddydog.org> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:43:54 -0400 From: Jonathan Arnold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sweetleaf References: <20030619001229.651c88e2.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <20030619001229.651c88e2.sweetleaf@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how much space for / X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:43:58 -0000 > When i installed freebsd-5.1, i stayed close to the recommended > partition sizes in the handbook. The faq. said 100 megabytes would usually be You might consider Greg Lehey "new" suggestion in the latest (4th) edition of "The Complete FreeBSD" book (a must have book, in my opinion). In there, he suggests having just three file systems: * 4 GB for the root file system, including /usr and /var * 512 MB swap space * the rest of the disk for /home, or at least as big as can be easily backed up Seems like a good idea to me. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD blog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog