Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 17:22:04 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Partitioning suggestions? Message-ID: <19971117172204.06768@vmunix.com>
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Hi all. I just got a new 6.5GB SCSI disk, and I'm going to reinstall FreeBSD (probably tonight, maybe in a few days). I'm wondering what people suggest for slicing up a large disk like that to make it easier to do system upgrades, make worlds, etc.. I'm thinking something like this: Mount FS Size -------------------- / UFS 50M swap 128M /tmp UFS 80M (nosuid) /var UFS 65M /usr UFS 2.5G /srcs UFS 1G /home UFS the rest This is my home machine, so a small /var is fine. /home on a seperate parition so I can nuke the rest and keep my files. I may make /usr larger, since I really don't have much in my home directory.. (right now only a couple hundred MB, but I'm quite tight on space). I plan on holding the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux sources on /srcs - I'm going to install NetBSD on the old 1.2GB SCSI disk. That way I can link /usr/obj in FreeBSD to the NetBSD /usr/tmp/obj and vice versa to get /usr and /obj on different spindles for both FreeBSD and NetBSD builds. Does this seems reasonable, or should I be leaving more/less room in places? TIA for any tips, -Mark -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -UGU
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