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Cc: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question
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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Kaya Saman wrote:
>> How I'd slice up the disk:
>> 
>> 2GB for /
>> 2GB for swap
>> 2GB for /var
>> 34GB for /usr
>> 
>
> Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to have 
> /var and /usr filesystems separate??

It's not required, it's just nice to do if the disk space is available.

You can allocate the whole disk to /.  With all the free space in one 
filesystem, that's useful for small disks (under 8G, I'd say).

Keeping the filesystems separate provides some versatility at the 
expense of splitting up the free space.  dump(8)ing a 300M / or a 100M 
/var is a lot easier than a 100G whole disk.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA