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Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 20:00:03 +0300 (IDT)
From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: interrupt request <irq@stepahead.net>
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Subject: Re: Partitioning
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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, interrupt request wrote:

> I have a 800MB drive, and am going to switch to FreeBSD soon. Without
> buying any more drives, what is the best partitioning scheme for /var,
> /usr, /, /home? I know this is an opinionative question....so give me your
> opinion.
> 
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> 
> 

For a standard workstation (not a server that's going to take many 
hits/day), I'll take some 30MB for /, 20MB for /var some to swap 
(depending on what type of load it will see - I'm writing this on a 
machine with 100MB swap, and it has /tmp on MFS too, but you can get 
along pretty well with even less) and the rest to /usr, with /home going 
(as it does by default) on /usr. If you really need /home to be separate, 
then you probably know how much it'll take up :-)

Nadav