Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:08:34 -0300 (GMT) From: Fernando Schapachnik <fpscha@ns1.sminter.com.ar> To: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition sizes on 3.1 Message-ID: <199904231308.KAA14654@ns1.sminter.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <H0000082019dc9ff@MHS> from "Clem.Dye@wdr.com" at "Apr 23, 99 02:00:50 pm"
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En un mensaje anterior, Clem.Dye@wdr.com escribió: > I've got to go through this exercise myself soon, when I build my box > - when I get the time - sigh, so I'm interested in how other people > have laid-out their drives. In my case I have 3.2GB to play with. I > plan to allow ~150MB for a swap partition (I have 72MB ram), 100MB > for /, but beyond that I'm open to ideas. I'm not sure if having > /usr/local on a separate partition actually buys you much (but will This allows you to reinstall the OS without loosing your applications or its .conf files. > stand to be corrected). What about a separate slice for swap - worth > doing? Yes of course. Also don't forget to put /home and /tmp on separate partitions, so 1) fulling /tmp doesn't affect /. 2) You can mount them noexec to add security and prevent things like hard links to /etc/passwd and similar. Regards. Fernando P. Schapachnik Administración de la red VIA Net Works Argentina SA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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