Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:38:25 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Joe Vender <jvender@owensboro.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise. Message-ID: <44vehwy5zi.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net> (Joe Vender's message of "Mon\, 19 Feb 2007 23\:37\:12 -0600") References: <200702192337.13712.jvender@owensboro.net>
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Joe Vender <jvender@owensboro.net> writes: > I've played around with the sizes, reducing /var to around 350Mb, / to around > 256Mb, and /tmp to around 256Mb leaving the space gained to /usr. In this > way, I got FreeBSD installed OK, but I'm considering installing it for a > final time and using it exclusively for my desktop after testing various > linuxes and FreeBSD and comparing them. So, I would like to get the sizes of > FreeBSD's slices optimized. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the user > community with a similar usage/size situation who can advise me. In a system that tight for space (for running KDE, anyway), I would just put all the space (aside from some swap) into a single root partition. The risks of something running away and filling a partition are much less of an issue than the risks of filling up a partition with legitimate data and needing to play games to keep everything installed. Greg Lehey has been recommending this approach in his books for at least a couple of editions now. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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