Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:34:40 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "'mertis@ameritech.net'" <mertis@ameritech.net> Subject: RE: Filesystem Message-ID: <14897.25088.63521.14934@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E783@exchange.panasonicfa.com> References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E783@exchange.panasonicfa.com>
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Zaitsau, Andrei <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> types: > Thanks for your help. > The System is going to be DSL Router/Gateway. It's 486 machine. But also I > need to place sources in order to compile kernel. Ok, you've just shot down the need for /home. If the gateway functionality isn't going to include anything that requires queuing to local disk (like an SMTP server) or generates lots of log activity, one big file system is perfectly reasonable. If you have one of the latter two cases, you might want to give /var a large chunk of space (how big depends on how much) to make / mostly static. This allows you to have different backup policies for / and /var. <mike > Zaitsau, Andrei <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com> types: > > Hello everyone, > > I have RTFM question :) > > But anyway, > > I have 2.1Gb Hard Drive. > > Can someone advise me how much would be the perfect sizes > > for filesystems: > > / > > /usr > > /tmp > > /var > > /mnt > > > > If I want to use the whole disk, is that all file system I need(or I do > not > > need)? > > You forgot swap, but that's not a file system. > > To get "perfect", we need to know what you're going to do with the > system, and what the system configuration is. > > For a workstation, I'd go with 2 * memory for swap (assuming you've > got enough memory for Win98 to run reasonably), make / ~1GB, then give > the rest to /home. / can vary between 500MB and the entire disk (with > /home on another disk) for common uses of the system. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> > http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. > -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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