From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 00:48:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF65916A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:48:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1203643D31 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:48:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Shadow333@gmx.at) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2005 00:48:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO there) (62.218.246.180) by mail.gmx.net (mp011) with SMTP; 25 Jan 2005 01:48:45 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1027147 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Oliver Leitner Organization: none To: Peterhin , questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:43:35 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <200501241943.20596.hindrich@worldchat.com> In-Reply-To: <200501241943.20596.hindrich@worldchat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Message-Id: <20050125004847.1203643D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Partition Size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:48:48 -0000 i dont see the /usr in your calculations... asside of that... it really depends on what youre going to do with the system, or which data its going to be holding... this is absolutely subjective, cant tell you as long as i dont get any further data on the probably size of your data, and where theyll be stored... Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:43, Peterhin wrote: > I asked the question the other day, whether to do a standard install or > a custom install. This was brought about because I read several > sources, including G. Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" > > I will be doing a Custom install. My question however, is looking at > page 70, in "The Complete FreeBSD" and I quote "Use the rest of the > space on disk for a /home file system. as long as it's possible to back > it up on a single tape. Otherwise make multiple file systems." > > My question is do I make multiple /home directories.? I have a SATA 80GB > hard drive, so as Greg L. suggests 4GB to 6GB for the root file > system. > 1GB to 2GB for the Swap file. The rest of the disk for the /home file. > > That would leave me with a /home of approx. 72GB. I would appreciate > any thoughts as to how I should do this. The computer will be used as > a stand alone workstation, with internet and email access for now. I do > have a large number of JPEG files in my existing /home directory. > (Linux) -- By reading this mail you agree to the following: using or giving out the email address and any other info of the author of this email is strictly forbidden. By acting against this agreement the author of this mail will take possible legal actions against the abuse.