From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 11:40:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1336937B688 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 94802 invoked by uid 100); 3 Oct 2000 18:33:45 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14810.9865.142770.852497@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:33:45 -0500 (CDT) To: Michellek Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning and future upgrades [newbie] In-Reply-To: <11339958@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michellek writes: > Hello All, > Are there any nuances to partitioning in terms of future upgrades? > Is the default auto-partitioning formula during the installation > set-up good enough for a newbie? The default setup is fine, but doesn't really deal well with upgrades. In particular, things on root tend to grow, so that what was once a more than reasonable root is now a tight fit, and going to get worse. It's also tuned more for a server than a workstation. I'd recommend combining root and var into one partition if you're not on a server. Others would recommend making it all one big partition, and that's not unreasonable. > As a nebie who had used Mac OS and some NT prevousely I liked the > smoothness of installation very much. Thank you very much. Well, I didn't do it, but I keep telling people it's not that hard (my mother did it).