Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?
I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 512MB RAM. According to this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html I should use: / = 100MB /swap = 1GB /var = 50MB /usr = rest (68GB) I use about this on a big disk like that: / 128 MB swap1.5 GB /tmp512 MG /usr2 GB /var4 GB /home all the rest of the slice. That is enough to get most stuff includeing a small database up and going. If I need more room in /usr or /var I move some stuff such as /usr/ports or /var/db or /var/spool or /var/log to the /home filesystem where they can grow and make symlinks. jerry On past FreeBSD installs, I would occasionaly do things as root, and ran out of space in /root. Since then, on desktop machines (with 250GB drives), I would make / be 4GB. On my lapatop, I wouldn't want to give up 4 of my 70 gigs if I didn't have to. So I am looking for a realistic number that wont cramp me, and wont waste too much space. I am planning on 1GB, so it will be big enough to hold the contents of a 700MB CD ISO. I have no idea how much of /var I need, other than I like to install various packages to try them out, and I would not want to limit something like a webserver or email server if I chose to run one for limited use. A friend took the default install suggestions for a machine he planned to do some web development on, and said his /var was way too small (they were new to FreeBSD also). I am guessing 5GB for /var would allow me to run a mail-server (for personal use) and Apache+extensions for limited website developement A swap of 1GB is fine, I'm not sure I've ever actually used any swap on my machines that had more than 128MB. I want /usr to be as big as possible (obviously), so my primary user account will have as much space as possible in /use/home/account. Should I use: / = 1GB /swap = 1GB /var = 5GB /usr = rest (63GB) ? thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?
I made a little guide about why and when to make seperate partitions here: http://cracauer-forum.cons.org/forum/partitions.html This is starting from the assumption that as few partitions as possible is the way to go, it lists reasons why you would want additional ones. Martin -- %%% Martin Cracauer cracauer@cons.org http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?
I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 512MB RAM. According to this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html I should use: / = 100MB /swap = 1GB /var = 50MB /usr = rest (68GB) On past FreeBSD installs, I would occasionaly do things as root, and ran out of space in /root. Since then, on desktop machines (with 250GB drives), I would make / be 4GB. On my lapatop, I wouldn't want to give up 4 of my 70 gigs if I didn't have to. So I am looking for a realistic number that wont cramp me, and wont waste too much space. I am planning on 1GB, so it will be big enough to hold the contents of a 700MB CD ISO. I have no idea how much of /var I need, other than I like to install various packages to try them out, and I would not want to limit something like a webserver or email server if I chose to run one for limited use. A friend took the default install suggestions for a machine he planned to do some web development on, and said his /var was way too small (they were new to FreeBSD also). I am guessing 5GB for /var would allow me to run a mail-server (for personal use) and Apache+extensions for limited website developement A swap of 1GB is fine, I'm not sure I've ever actually used any swap on my machines that had more than 128MB. I want /usr to be as big as possible (obviously), so my primary user account will have as much space as possible in /use/home/account. Should I use: / = 1GB /swap = 1GB /var = 5GB /usr = rest (63GB) ? thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?
wrangled sat at his 'puter and typed on 12/5/2005 0:10: I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 512MB RAM. According to this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html I should use: / = 100MB /swap = 1GB /var = 50MB /usr = rest (68GB) On past FreeBSD installs, I would occasionaly do things as root, and ran out of space in /root. Since then, on desktop machines (with 250GB drives), I would make / be 4GB. On my lapatop, I wouldn't want to give up 4 of my 70 gigs if I didn't have to. So I am looking for a realistic number that wont cramp me, and wont waste too much space. I am planning on 1GB, so it will be big enough to hold the contents of a 700MB CD ISO. That is a VERY VERY BAD idea. It is not recommended to do ANYTHING as root which can be done as some other non privileged user. I have no idea how much of /var I need, other than I like to install various packages to try them out, and I would not want to limit something like a webserver or email server if I chose to run one for limited use. A friend took the default install suggestions for a machine he planned to do some web development on, and said his /var was way too small (they were new to FreeBSD also). I am guessing 5GB for /var would allow me to run a mail-server (for personal use) and Apache+extensions for limited website developement Generally the maximum space is eaten up by the logs and the databases (if any) hosted on the system. A swap of 1GB is fine, I'm not sure I've ever actually used any swap on my machines that had more than 128MB. Depends solely on the applications you are trying to run on the box. I want /usr to be as big as possible (obviously), so my primary user account will have as much space as possible in /use/home/account. Should I use: / = 1GB /swap = 1GB /var = 5GB /usr = rest (63GB) This is my personal scheme for my desktop which hosts my personal website and a very very small database which is basically my phone directory and appointment schedules. / = 128M swap=2G /var = 2G /var/tmp = 128M /usr = rest. /tmp is symlinked to /var/tmp. Now my system specs: Athlon 64Fx-55 1G DDR 400M RAM 3*160G SATA150 Western Digital in RAID 5 ASUS K8N-SLI DX motherboard. Again, nothing is absolute. Your requirement would dictate your labeling scheme. Thanks S. -- --- \ / | Subhro Sankha Kar \./ | GSM: +919831010002 -- Fax: +919831832913 (0Y0) |MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Yahoo!: subhro82 -ooO--(_)--Ooo- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:40:01PM -0500, wrangled wrote: I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 512MB RAM. According to this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html I should use: / = 100MB /swap = 1GB /var = 50MB /usr = rest (68GB) Some apps make heavy use of /tmp. It's wise to have that on a separate slice. I want /usr to be as big as possible (obviously), so my primary user account will have as much space as possible in /use/home/account. I'd make /home into a separate slice. Easier for backups. You can easily reinstall ports, but if you loose your personal data... Should I use: / = 1GB /swap = 1GB /var = 5GB /usr = rest (63GB) Running 6.0-STABLE on my amd64 workstation with 260 ports installed, 'df -m' gives the following: Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a 49577 37917%/ /dev/ar0s1g123067 21700 9152119%/home /dev/ar0s1e 495 0 456 0%/tmp /dev/ar0s1f 19832 3601 1464320%/usr /dev/ar0s1d 196355 1751 3%/var So I'd say, give / 0.5 GB, /usr 5GB, /tmp .5 GB, /var 1.5 GB and give the rest to /home. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpENC99gDgeA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?
I'd make /home into a separate slice. Easier for backups. You can easily reinstall ports, but if you loose your personal data... Thats a good idea. I will digest what eveveryone said, and post what I did. Currently I'm installing Win2k, since this will be a dual-boot machine. FreeBSD is next! thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
