Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 08:21:33 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OS installation Message-ID: <20020106072133.GF1003@raggedclown.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, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:40:35PM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:09:49PM -0500, Matthew Graybosch stood up and spoke: > > > > You'll have to format your drive into at least one "slice" and then break > > that slice into filesystems. I recommend a separate filesystem for /, /usr, > > swap, and /home. Somebody suggested using the swap partition as /tmp, > > mounting it as an MFS filesystem (Memory Filesystem). I haven't done this > > myself, but it sounds like a cool idea. > > 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. > > So, I guess it's worthwhile to manually plan filesystem sizes and not fall > back on FreeBSD's defaults... > I second this sentiment, the default size for /var is bizarre, to say the very least, give yourself lots of room there, or you will end up joing the possibly thousand of FBSD installations where /var becomes a symlink to somewhere on /usr... I would not give it less than 1G on 60 GB disk, a lot more if I was running a local news setup like leafnode (and subscribing to a mailing list like this one :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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