Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk
S?ren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have gotten a new old server. The default patitions only leaves 128MB for '/', is that not a little to little? I still have a machine running 4-stable with only 50 Mbyte in the root file system. /var, /tmp and /usr are all separate, of course. Having said that, I'd recommend at least 150 Mbyte for the root file system on new installations. It leaves more room for various things, e.g. debug kernels (which are huge). I also like to keep several generations of backup copies of /etc on my root file system (call me paranoid). Also, the space required by kernel modules seems to be growing fast. Another point: If you enable soft-updates on your root file system, you'll run into trouble when you do an installworld and there's not much space left. Do you guys have any recommendations? I will offcause place most things under '/usr', bu surely '/' must be able to contain quite some MB's too, after all 'bin' and 'sbin' are placed under '/'. Depending on what you're going to use that machine for, it might even be a good idea not to make /usr a separate file system. In that case, of course, the root file system should be a lot larger. Of course, /var and /tmp should always be separate from the root file system. Other candidates are /home and possibly /usr/local. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk
Hi, I have gotten a new old server. The default patitions only leaves 128MB for '/', is that not a little to little? It really depends on how you divide things up. For reasons of management and backup convenience, on a bunch of servers we manage, we do not make separate partitions for /usr or /var (but we move /var/spool and /usr/local somewhere else with room to expand). So, on those machines we need a little more than a 256 MB root partition. But, on other machines as some have pointed out, they get by with even less than 128 MB. On today's giant disks it is not unreasonable to have a 256MB root although some people think you get better disk access times making it smaller. Someone more intimately familiar with physical disk and controller design and implementation could respond to that better than I. Anyway, the main answer is that it really depends on how you chop things up. jerry Do you guys have any recommendations? I will offcause place most things under '/usr', bu surely '/' must be able to contain quite some MB's too, after all 'bin' and 'sbin' are placed under '/'. -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk
I have gotten a new old server. The default patitions only leaves 128MB for '/', is that not a little to little? Do you guys have any recommendations? I will offcause place most things under '/usr', bu surely '/' must be able to contain quite some MB's too, after all 'bin' and 'sbin' are placed under '/'. -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk
/ can be 128M if you have separate /var and /tmp directories... Here is my local box : ; df -lh Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0a126M63M53M54%/ /dev/ad0f252M70M 162M30%/tmp /dev/ad0g 17G 5.0G11G31%/usr /dev/ad0e252M11M 221M 5%/var /dev/da0e8.3G 1.3G 6.4G16%/export/u1 procfs 8.0K 8.0K 0B 100%/proc I have gotten a new old server. The default patitions only leaves 128MB for '/', is that not a little to little? Do you guys have any recommendations? I will offcause place most things under '/usr', bu surely '/' must be able to contain quite some MB's too, after all 'bin' and 'sbin' are placed under '/'. -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk
monkey@manifold:/% du -h bin 4.0Mbin monkey@manifold:/% du -h sbin 12Msbin i have a 75MB / partition, and i only use 58% of it. as long as /var, /tmp, and /home are separate partitions, / doesn't need to be big at all. practically the only thing that takes up space then is /root. so, no, 128MB is not only fine, it's probably overkill. -Adam (09.24.2002 @ 1610 PST): Søren Neigaard said, in 0.6K: I have gotten a new old server. The default patitions only leaves 128MB for '/', is that not a little to little? Do you guys have any recommendations? I will offcause place most things under '/usr', bu surely '/' must be able to contain quite some MB's too, after all 'bin' and 'sbin' are placed under '/'. -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message end of Recommended partitions for a 20 GB disk from Søren Neigaard -- Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw. -Lilo, Lilo Stitch Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
