From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 18:20:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D3AA37B424 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 80159 invoked by uid 100); 24 Apr 2001 01:20:34 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15076.54498.60113.909152@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:20:34 -0500 To: Andrew Hesford Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root partition In-Reply-To: <112436009@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" 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 Andrew Hesford types: > Looks like it's your turn, Mr. Jeffrey; remember to make a larger root > partition this time. Of course, if the partition layout is lousy (like > everything on one or two partitions), you may be able to postpone the > install by creating some extra partitions and moving stuff there. Here's > a layout I use: Actually, everything on one or two partitions is *recommended* for typical workstations these days. Merging two partitions while allocating the same amount of space to them makes it less likely either one will run out of space - after all, the unused space is now shared between them so it's *all* available if one of them needs it, as opposed to only half of it being available. > SIZE MOUNT > ~7G /usr/home > ~10G /usr > 250M / > 200M /var > > Yes, many will call this wasteful use of space on /, but hey, disk space > is cheap, and I'm not using it. I keep /tmp on /, although an MFS /tmp > might be desirable in the near future. I'm actually using about 50M of > / and 14M of /var... not exactly efficient, but hey, the layout never > leaves me cursing over full partitions. :) Unless you've got a good reason to avoid it, you might as well merge /, /usr and /var into one ~10.5 gig file system. leaving /usr/home on it's own file system means you can reinstall FreeBSD on a clean partition without touching the user data on /usr/home. Personally, I keep / & /var on one file system that's currently about 31% full, because they are just *full* of interesting configuration information I consider precious. /usr is pretty much everything else that comes off the CDROMs or sup server, and as such is considered expendable. /home is personal stuff, and is even more precious than /. But I keep the / and /home separate so I can do a clean reinstall without frying /home (and yes, I've done that at times). http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message