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Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 11:10:23 -0600
From: "Lance L. Jones" <lljones@kickinit.com>
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Subject: Re: Partitioning
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interrupt request wrote:
> 
> I have a 800MB drive, and am going to switch to FreeBSD soon. Without
> buying any more drives, what is the best partitioning scheme for /var,
> /usr, /, /home? I know this is an opinionative question....so give me your
> opinion.
> 
You could try the choice <A> for automatic since you are new to FreeBSD,
and it will give you /,/swap,/usr,/var and mount them with correct
sizes.
PS: Do you beleive that sig. could be a little large? 

Lance