Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:08:27 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Chip Wiegand" <chip@wiegand.org>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: post installation and /usr /var /tmp location Message-ID: <005401c0a64f$4c800760$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20010306065006.7599db0d.chip@wiegand.org>
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> I have recently been given some computers, not new but quite usable. One > of which is a compaq prosignia 300 - 3 scsi 1.x harddrives, scsi > cddrive, 32 megs ram, P90. I am going to install fbsd 4.2 on this > machine and would like to put the /usr partition on one drive, and the > /var and /tmp partitions on the 3rd drive. In Gregs book he shows the > commands to move the /tmp and /var from root to /usr. If I name the > second and 3rd drives usr2 and usr3, can I do just as easily move the > /tmp and /var to usr3 and also the /usr to usr2? I am just trying to > make the best use of the 3 small drives. I am open to any other > suggestions from anyone who has come up against this situation. Yes, that should work fine. Since you're moving /usr, /var and /tmp, all that your boot drive will have is / and swap. I believe the default size of / is 50MB, and that swap is usually allocated as 2 x RAM, which in your case, would be 64MB. Hence, your first 1GB drive would have <150MB of stuff on it, "wasting" 850MB. Also, you may find that /usr may grow to be more than 1 GB, depending on what you've got in /usr/home, /usr/ports and /usr/local. Depending on what you're planning on doing with the machine, a slightly different layout would be appropriate. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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