From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 16:52: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0A237B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A3143E6E for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (2a8d26f803b86a141c9a2ba3612d71c3@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8ONqYho060108; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:52:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8ONqY7P060107; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:52:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:52:33 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Neigaard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk Message-ID: <20020924235233.GX45124@vectors.cx> References: <10427231031.20020925011007@e-box.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <10427231031.20020925011007@e-box.dk> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 '/'. > > -- > Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, > Søren Neigaard mailto:neigaard@e-box.dk > -- > "Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk" from Søren Neigaard << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message