On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:41 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikola, > > Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. > > Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t > know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half of year > I have about 4GB outlook mail db. So 1GB for /var might be not enough > in my case.
The hier(7) manpage is very useful to understand the default directory structure: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html As for mail, it depends on how you plan to receive and handle it; if you just download mail from pop3 account, it will be stored in your home by a mail client (this goes as well for mail you export from Outlook to e.g. Thunderbird). For locally (system) delivered mail, /var/spool is the default place, but unless you want yo use your laptop as a mail server, it's unlikely you will store your mail there. > Having /home as part of /usr is the good point. But in case of backup > it make sense to have /home as separate partition. What you think > about this? Of course it's very useful for backups. I just thought it was useful to warn you about how much space /usr/ports could need because the default installation procedure on FreeBSD is to compile sources (of thirs party applications and of FreeBSD itself). As a useful example on how much space you might need, here are rough sizes on my home desktop computer, used for everyday work. I have ~850 ports installed. /usr/ports ~2G (with current distfiles and packages that happen to be there + you will need at least 2-3G for large upgrades, sometimes > 10G) /usr/local ~5G (third party applications + additions such as TeXLive = ~1G) /usr/home ~20G --------------------- /usr total used: ~30G (includes FreeBSD itself + some other smaller storages) If you plan to build FreeBSD itself in the future, then /usr must be even bigger. If all this leaves enough room for /home for you, then it's certainly very useful to make it separate partition. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"