Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:15:29 -0600 From: Joe Vender <jvender@owensboro.net> To: Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise. Message-ID: <200702201315.30146.jvender@owensboro.net> In-Reply-To: <45DB1C55.5050905@gmail.com> References: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net> <45DB1C55.5050905@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 20 February 2007 10:05, Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > Perhaps it is possible to reduce / to ~128 mb? boot up and see Right now, I'm running slackware, but if I remember correctly, the / partition contained about 40 to 60 Mb or data. > estimate that you need several mb free and estimate double of > /boot/kernel directory (if you install new kernel you get to keep the > old one, therefore estimate double that directory size). > Swap ... well for a successful crash dump you need as much as swap as > you have memory. I have 312Mb of usable RAM, so I made the swap around double that. > /var can be further reduced to perhaps 512mb or perhaps even less? I wasn't sure how much I'd need in /var, so I didn't want to undersize it too much. But, I don't spool large print jobs, and I set the logs to be trimmed regularly. > > Just a (cluttered) suggestion. > > The cool part about FreeBSD is what you can get away with, just by > symlinking (ln -s) a few folders here and there. After all, it's just > your desktop, right? Agreed. I'm just experimenting and learning at this point. Thanks for the suggestions, Sten. Joe
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