We have less limitation on partitioning these days, so /usr/obj
was obvious- actually had that one before. I chose /usr/src and
/usr/local as well, and expect that this was unimportant unless
moving into NFS or some special circumstance.
I have looked at some of the things that folks are doing with /var
on ZFS. I understand that ZFS is not within the scope of this
list; however, does anyone have some neat ideas about partitions
under /var?
Particularly, I am interested in /var/crash, /var/tmp, and /tmp.
I would not personally have any use for a crashdump, unless it
would be to pass it along to someone who could make use of it. I
basically want the partitions to be set up logically.
Typically etc, usr, tmp, var, home, and / have been enough. /usr/obj
is an excellent addition and so does someone have recommendations
of further refining my scheme for OpenBSD51?
I used /altroot for the first time on OpenBSD50, but had to modify
fstab like this:
#bb128e900f20094a.d /altroot ffs xx 0 0
/dev/wd0d /altroot ffs xx 0 0
I guess that /var/crash should be crafted to memory and that /var/tmp as well
as /tmp can actually be very small?
Darrel
Hi,
Yeah /var, /var/tmp, & /tmp should be very small, as far as you make
"classical" use of your machine.
For example on very low performance machine I use about 128/256Mo at most for
it all !
Thank you, Francois.
This one is actually a Windows95 Intel now running FreeBSD9. My sister's
friend did not want Windows95 any longer:
Disk status:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ada0a 755M 394M 300M 57% /
devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ada0d 29M 4.1M 22M 15% /tmp
/dev/ada0e 393M 4.8M 357M 1% /var
/dev/ada0f 5.9G 3.8G 1.6G 70% /usr
/dev/ada0g 1.6G 200M 1.3G 13% /home
I probably should have made /home smaller and increased /var.
It has used some swap:
last pid: 69956; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01 up 13+05:43:32
03:37:09
27 processes: 1 running, 26 sleeping
CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 1.1% interrupt, 98.5% idle
Mem: 21M Active, 36M Inact, 41M Wired, 4752K Cache, 21M Buf, 4720K Free
Swap: 768M Total, 15M Used, 752M Free, 2% Inuse
Darrel
