From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 9 14:07:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A57D1065670 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:07:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mahlerrd@yahoo.com) Received: from web51004.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web51004.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCDF08FC17 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 44848 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Oct 2009 14:07:13 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1255097233; bh=OVRuV4R3GHlFs/WN6Up+ioHc1KVAmQjIq15T57l/W1k=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=CTCkZp/9QhLdr/YlrV9hAUf5sJVLbRNjRSJbfw3Ydz6TcBA8Mw1Ggfj/x9TNPa2QoMWF2dStWxvz1dXqMOd+bdiay7USnXRbWBtLj11wytPUhDHxyvt9EUKJBRghHW5+UJaaRvyio9CKuEjRaeVsxf0aHoKaKS3eACq1u0kTyD8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=zJ6zPeo8d7SHcZ0nfXJRd/hGU24FuWMIz0gicvYy/YrsCl3Jzk69U+/umvZXcht4WOa4JkiZM+2rn+x801Lud6PKRPV3vIWl6xE4Ew1qJOH8O0BGAouqsMj32cP7cBQdA+J95XSvLh6hxtk/PEihlL1O2Q77yXKIHMhSBzhPT+Q=; Message-ID: <133849.44821.qm@web51004.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: RGFRP30VM1lIYlkQTpS3j1Hy2YtRJA0qCOt.PBKo0myXGfnloDhRYKti02uRrYvG_FZ6CpLPxyJmm6bYs6RATeWxwmEB1nBgTc6vUwo6JQ_0NtJSEr0JfJTUfMxd04aFrYjptQPvgeAqZHANS1ErgY5uU8VeE4.5YrqmEcklvQM4k.n3DKItCaRxQNNGoQUrlPpyf4JLz_Ff7d4jJjzXIZT7MIR5nm3iKSIl36SCep34Q7L4DDaJSDseUKvnceoeZh1uhRD69TJlK9oKGTLmK2KlG_LoxMplIq6nw6AWovfiv_rcVV1Q1IBOxrMp.ctUmtWKuLlw3z9v9dlAXYKslf7ARdTnyBdBSw4LsanvZlxBXqfreQ0GkFJHWWRRWgS8rYRO2w45HGd7BbX348LeZbA0oSk- Received: from [74.40.57.42] by web51004.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:07:12 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/7.0.14 YahooMailWebService/0.7.347.3 Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:07:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Mahlerwein To: FreeBSD-Questions In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mahlerrd@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:07:14 -0000 > From: Randi Harper > I was thinking that a more acceptable default layout > (leaving swap at it's current default size) would be: > > / = 1GB > /var = 2GB > /tmp = 2GB Similar enough to what I use for general systems that I vote YES. I'd love to add one more - on a drive bigger than, say, 40 GB, adding a separate /home would be wonderful. Maybe allow up to 20 GB for user, all remaining space allocated to /home? Regardless of the second point, the first point is fine, though.