Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 01:04:13 +0100 From: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice on creating partitions Message-ID: <20020105010413.A79685@klamath.local> In-Reply-To: <20020105004433.2a0f19ca.fxn@isoco.com>; from fxn@isoco.com on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:44:33AM %2B0100 References: <20020105004433.2a0f19ca.fxn@isoco.com>
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--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:44:33AM +0100, F.Xavier Noria wrote: > I've got a new computer with RAM 256 DDR and 21GB of its hard disk > reserved for FreeBSD. >=20 > I have no clue about what partitions should I create and what size > should they have since in previous installations I just followed the > 3xRAM rule for swap and the rest was under /. >=20 > This is going to be an average desktop computer, for playing around, > programming and so forth. After reading the relevant parts of the > Handbook and "The Complete FreeBSD", I've come with this temptative > settings: >=20 > / 200MB > swap 800MB > /var 300MB + SoftUpdates > /usr <rest> + SoftUpdates Everything seems fine to me except /usr. Make it smaller, around 4GB or less. And then, make the rest of space a nice /home partition. My /usr is 3.5GB and it is still 45% used, with _lots_ (too much) applications installed... > and /tmp would be symlinked to /usr/tmp to make sure I do not run out of Use MFS for /tmp; it's cooler ;) mount -t mfs /dev/swappartition /tmp HTH > space there (is that reason reasonable in fact?). I don't need to be > conservative because I have a lot of room, would you think those are > suitable partitions? >=20 > -- fxn >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 La ignorancia es la felicidad. Julio Merino (Slink) <juli@merino.net> --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8NkL9zz00ZOPKycwRAqfjAJ46uVsbYZGJS2HvNqi9Z9xqiM8i8wCfbpP+ Wq2OPH8QsgasNYbfkseex0s= =SQuU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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