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: /

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 --

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

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:

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:

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