Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:20:42 -0800 (PST) From: Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net> To: conrads@home.com Cc: scotte@speakeasy.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with partitioning schemes Message-ID: <200003301920.LAA00350@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000330123331.conrads@home.com> (message from Conrad Sabatier on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:33:31 -0600 (CST))
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Of course, there is never *one* correct answer.
> On 30-Mar-00 Scott wrote:
> The last time I tried to install FreeBSD the installer offered its
> own default partition mapping. Not knowing the proper sizes, I
> chose the defaults. What recomended partition mappings do people
> recommend for a system which will be FreeBSD-only (6 Gig drive)
> and why do you choose your scheme?
I have a 64M root partition that was at one time about 70% full, but
then I removed a number of old kernels that I hadn't used in some
time. (Once the system is "good", you don't usually need ten extra
"just in case" kernels). Now it's about 56% full.
/var is 402M, but there's a specific reason for that. Running a
custom install of the postgreSQL database server, it's data files are
stored in /var. I also have my Apache set to use /var/html as it's
document root. The idea was to *try* to get /usr mountable read-only
and still be able to modify the dynamic content of the system.
If you're going to use a large database that uses /var, make /var at
least as large as the data sets you intend to use. I happened to have
a 402M hard drive handy and just committed the whole thing for it.
It's currently about 43% full, but growing slowly.
With 64M RAM, I have 128M swap, using the old twice-your-memory rule.
I don't think I'd go larger than that because a) The things I do don't
use up that much memory, and b) If I was using all 64M RAM *and* 128M
swap, more swap wouldn't help because the system would be on its knees
swapping like mad anyway.
/home, if you make it separate (makes re-installs easier), really
depends on what your users use. I have 402M for home, only because I
had two of those hard drives I mentioned earlier.
Of course, /usr is usually "everything else", and the only time it
wouldn't be is if you had a highly specific plan for your system with
storage requirements pretty well spelled out. Some people advocate
for /usr being a read-only system, in which case it would only have to
be a little larger than what is required for a basic install,
/usr/local being used for add-ons.
Them's my thoughts. Sorry for rambling.
--
Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software
<bduk@earthlink.net>
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