Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:51:58 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Runkle <drunkle@home.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Help with partitioning schemes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003311039310.5721-100000@xb.fiddi.com> In-Reply-To: <000b01bf9aeb$6c5d0210$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net>
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Ah, you have seen things that like to be installed in /opt. I can think of the old Star Office (not sure if they still do that or not), and others too. So all of a sudden you have a need for a 400-meg situation. If you haven't allocated a partition for /opt, then where does the 400 go? of course, /opt would be under /. And we now have only - what have I heard - 64MB, 80MB, whatever the other recommendations for / were, I don't remember. So you work the symlink magic. Is the point of my rambling that it sounds like everybody's situation is different? Maybe so. In the old days, I used to plan carefully the needs of the box I'm building, how many users, what will be the purpose of the box, etc. Now I'm older, and lazier. And I've learned that no matter how much I plan, I'm usually wrong. :) So I give swap a couple of hundred megs and put the rest under /. And I'm done with it. I use my firewalling to protect against /var/spool attacks. I haven't had the need to mount /usr in fancy ways for a long time. Can anyone point me a reason that I might run up against a mount problem these days? Why would I need to split off /usr anymore? I *do* like the idea of a separate /home or /var/backups or /usr/local/src/archive (or similar) for saving emergency stuff in case of a need for total reinstall, though. That's an attractive solution. Another cute scheme is to have a teeny partition for DOS that could be used for configuring legacy ethernet adapters, etc. Dave On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, James A Wilde wrote: > Useful analysis, thanks, Conrad. But what about /opt? I don't have your > background, but I seem to see a lot of stuff which goes to /opt. Or does one > make /opt a symlink to /usr? > > mvh/regards > > James > > < snip > > > > 3) The main point of all of this is to allow as much space as possible for > > /usr, where most stuff will be installed. So, create /, /var, and swap > > first, then allocate whatever's left to /usr. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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