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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:52:33 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Neigaard <neigaard@e-box.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk
Message-ID:  <20020924235233.GX45124@vectors.cx>
In-Reply-To: <10427231031.20020925011007@e-box.dk>
References:  <10427231031.20020925011007@e-box.dk>

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monkey@manifold:/% du -h bin
4.0M    bin
monkey@manifold:/% du -h sbin
 12M    sbin

i have a 75MB / partition, and i only use 58% of it. as long as /var,
/tmp, and /home are separate partitions, / doesn't need to be big at
all. practically the only thing that takes up space then is /root.

so, no, 128MB is not only fine, it's probably overkill.

-Adam


>> (09.24.2002 @ 1610 PST): Søren Neigaard said, in 0.6K: <<
> I have gotten a new old server. The default patitions only leaves
> 128MB for '/', is that not a little to little?
> 
> Do you guys have any recommendations? I will offcause place most
> things under '/usr', bu surely '/' must be able to contain quite some
> MB's too, after all 'bin' and 'sbin' are placed under '/'.
> 
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>> end of "Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk" from Søren Neigaard <<


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