From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 19:24:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5AA37B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p04-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.133]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id MAA24853; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 12:24:08 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A022F7B.521F94C4@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 12:22:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Don Muller , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is this how to use Freebsd? References: <003c01c044ed$292e1e00$490822d1@user> <20001102085251.Q20567@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > That's a typlical 'Linux' partitioning choice, personally I dislike it > and prefer something link: > > 120M / > 300M /var > 2xRAM swap (limit 1 gig) > rest /usr I like having a separate /tmp. / can then be 50 or 60 Mb. But, particularly, a 300Mb /var depends heavily on what the machine is being used for. It could well languish with 290 Mb free for some kinds of servers, and particularly for desktop machines. > /usr may be split into /usr and /usr/home, if so /usr usually gets > about 1.5gigs and /usr/home gets the rest. /usr and /home, please. :-) That's our default. > A couple of suggestions: > > 1) please wrap lines at 70 characters when posting to the list. Furthermore, DO NOT send html-formatted messages. I, for one, delete without even reading all html-formatted messages. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@world.wide.bsdconspiracy.net He has been convicted of criminal possession of a clue with intent to distribute. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message