Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:38:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: neigaard@e-box.dk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk Message-ID: <200209251438.g8PEcv110539@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <10427231031.20020925011007@e-box.dk> from "=?ISO-8859-15?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?=" at Sep 25, 2002 01:10:07 AM
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Hi, > I have gotten a new old server. The default patitions only leaves > 128MB for '/', is that not a little to little? It really depends on how you divide things up. For reasons of management and backup convenience, on a bunch of servers we manage, we do not make separate partitions for /usr or /var (but we move /var/spool and /usr/local somewhere else with room to expand). So, on those machines we need a little more than a 256 MB root partition. But, on other machines as some have pointed out, they get by with even less than 128 MB. On today's giant disks it is not unreasonable to have a 256MB root although some people think you get better disk access times making it smaller. Someone more intimately familiar with physical disk and controller design and implementation could respond to that better than I. Anyway, the main answer is that it really depends on how you chop things up. ////jerry > > Do you guys have any recommendations? I will offcause place most > things under '/usr', bu surely '/' must be able to contain quite some > MB's too, after all 'bin' and 'sbin' are placed under '/'. > > -- > Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, > Søren Neigaard mailto:neigaard@e-box.dk > -- > "Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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