Three questions...
RW
list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Sun Jul 17 17:57:16 GMT 2005
On Friday 15 July 2005 20:27, George Ruch wrote:
> Q3: Partitioning
> Yes, I know you've seen several million questions on partitioning
> schemes. I've read up on it, and I'd like to get some feedback on this
> plan. All slices would be p/o ad1a, which has approx. 14,704MB free.
>
> / 128M
> /usr 8192M
> /home 3312M
> /var 1024M
> /tmp 1024M
> swap 1024M (4 x physical)
With this amount of space, unless you a setting up a server for a dedicated
application, I would go with the freebsd default of having /home as a symlink
to /usr/home.
I would also shrink /tmp down at least to 256M or even less, normally things
break down into two sets: those that need fiddling small amounts of tmp
space, and those that need huge amounts and need to be pointed elsewhere.
Similarly with /var - I'm currently using 68MB out of 512MB on a standard
desktop machine, huge var partitions are used in certain kinds of specialist
servers.
BTW I would recommend GAG as a boot manager:
- no configurations files needed, you can install it through menus from a
linux live cd
- once it's installed on the disk you can maintain it from it's own bootprompt
menu. That's a really nice, because a year from now you wont need to reread
man pages to change the boot delay, or add another os.
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