Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 20:00:03 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: interrupt request <irq@stepahead.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970330195753.23226A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970330113318.5212A-100000@stepahead.net>
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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. > [long signature snipped] > > 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
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