From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 16:53:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A50F37BBB4 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 16:53:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:61229 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Wed, 3 May 2000 01:53:01 +0200 Received: (qmail 3816 invoked by uid 1001); 2 May 2000 23:52:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 01:52:56 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: FREEBSD-Questions Subject: Re: BSD Theology: swap, /var, /tmp and /usr/tmp Message-ID: <20000503015256.B3707@student.csd.uu.se> References: <390F41FD.5880279E@telinco.net> <20000503012329.A3265@student.csd.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000503012329.A3265@student.csd.uu.se>; from ertr1013@csd.uu.se on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:23:29AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:23:29AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:00:45PM +0100, Peter McGarvey wrote: > > > > Fine, but now some upstart has asked me to set up a FreeBSD system with > > the following.... > > > > / -> 5MB > > swap 1 -> 512MB (equal to memory) > > swap 2 -> 512MB > > /var -> 2GB > > /tmp -> 2GB > > /usr -> remaining disk > > > > My first instinct is that the guy is barking mad (he is a Linux groupie > > so... (and Linux does have a nasty habit of apropriating every entry in > > the partition table)) > > The only problem that I see is that if swap1 and swap2 is on the same > (physical) disk you might as well just make one big swap partition from > them. Otherwise it looks fine. Following up on myself... On reading a bit closer that 5MB / looks way too small. I don't think you can get away with a root partition that small. I hope that was a typo and you meant 50MB in which case it should be fine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message