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Date:      Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:54:15 -0500
From:      Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OS installation
Message-ID:  <20020105175415.71c7457c.matthew@starbreaker.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020105234035.B86927@tisys.org>
References:  <20020105185034.98254.qmail@web20610.mail.yahoo.com> <20020105160949.2e5a0e7e.matthew@starbreaker.net> <20020105234035.B86927@tisys.org>

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On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:40:35 +0100
Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> wrote:

> About the filesystems: I guess it is highly important that one gets this
> right by hand. When using FreeBSD's auto-defaults, it creates filesystems
> for /, /usr and /var. However, the sizing of these is weird. While I agree
> with sysinstall that most space should be devoted to /usr in case only
> these three filesystems are wanted, I guess that sysinstall's default of
> only assigning around 19 MB for /var even on a 60 GB hard disk might soon
> lead to trouble for many usage scenarios.

If you've got a 60GB drive, then I'd allocate 500MB to /, 1GB to /var, and
split the rest between /usr and /home.

-- 
Matthew Graybosch
http://www.starbreaker.net
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"Sex, Unix, and rock 'n roll"

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