Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:41:02 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How should I partition my disk? Message-ID: <9709100241.AA22984@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Sep 1997 19:28:01 PDT." <19970910115801.03392@lemis.com>
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> >He only wants to dedicate 1.2 GB to FreeBSD. 'A' uses the whole disk. > >I agree with Jörg, of course, but if you're really only giving a >fraction, I suppose you should look out for these things: > >1. If you're booting from this disk, you should ensure that the > *entire* root slice is in the first 504 MB of the disk. > >2. Use a 45 MB root partition, 150 MB swap, and the rest in /usr. > Create /var/usr, copy /var to /var/usr, and put a symlink from > /var to /var/usr. > >Greg I'm installing 3.0 snap right now... >From prior experience, I installed freebsd at the top of my disk with no problem (I'm using system commander). I ended up: / - 50 /usr - 250 25 Mbyte swap (I have 48 Mbyte ram, and I want run an X server) /usr/src - 300 Mbyte /usr/local - the rest marty
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