Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:31:18 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: GYegoroff <GYegoroff@sibtel.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard disk partitions Message-ID: <33BA11D6.5D3F@barcode.co.il> References: <199707020630.XAA16759@hub.freebsd.org>
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GYegoroff wrote: > > Hi , I want to install FreeBSD 2.2.1 , but I,m novice in UNIX . > How optimal create partitions on hard disk 1.6 Gb ? > Thanks . > With respect , George Yegoroff . Depends on what you're going to use it for. First, note that partitions in the FreeBSD sense are different from what DOS calls partitions (DOS partitions are referred to as slices). All of the partitions go into a single slice. Basically, you can use the (A)uto option of the disklabel editor to get some decent defaults. The rules of thumb being: The / parition should have almost nothing in it. If you intend to have many kernels or lkm's you'll need a bit more. However, generally some 30MB will be more than enough. The /var partition is for log files and mail and news spools (mainly). If you're setting up a large server (especially mail/news, but also www, as the www logs will probably go in there) it should be fairly large. Otherwise, it can be pretty small. Swap space is largly dependent on how busy the machine will be. Major swap space consumers are Emacs, X11, Netscape and gcc. If you use many of these concurrently you'll need a *lot* of swap space. The rest of the system goes under /usr. This includes users' files, most of the software and docs you'll install, etc. Nadav
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