Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:05:41 -0500 From: Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com> To: Joe Vender <jvender@owensboro.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise. Message-ID: <45DB1C55.5050905@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net> References: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net>
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Joe Vender wrote: > I have a 6120MB HDD which will be dedicated to FreeBSD 6.2. I intend to > install the ports collection and also KDE. I will operate from the KDE > environment using FreeBSD as a standalone desktop machine connected to the > net via a dialup internet connection. What would be the best sizes for the > disk partitions so that I don't run out of space on any of them while also > leaving the maximum amount of space possible for the future software to be > installed? > My partitions will be: > / > swap > /var > /tmp > /usr > > as suggested using the auto option during slice creation. > > I've found that if I use the default sizes that are chosen by the installer > using the auto option, the /usr partition fills up before everything is > installed and the installation fails. If I remember correctly, the auto > feature sets the sizes around the following sizes for my HDD: > / ~500MB > swap ~600MB > /var ~1300MB > /tmp ~ 500MB > /usr ~3GB > Perhaps it is possible to reduce / to ~128 mb? boot up and see estimate that you need several mb free and estimate double of /boot/kernel directory (if you install new kernel you get to keep the old one, therefore estimate double that directory size). Swap ... well for a successful crash dump you need as much as swap as you have memory. /var can be further reduced to perhaps 512mb or perhaps even less? if you do buildworld then /var/tmp/ might be used more. Perhaps you could merge / and /var and symlink /var/tmp with say /usr/tmp ? /tmp can be reduced, you can even remove it completely and use tmpfs for that partition. /usr needs the rest Just a (cluttered) suggestion. The cool part about FreeBSD is what you can get away with, just by symlinking (ln -s) a few folders here and there. After all, it's just your desktop, right? -- Sten Daniel Soersdal
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