Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Michael Vondung wrote:

> Partitions
>
> If anything brings out the perfectionist in me, it is figuring out how to
> partition a disk. What I have in mind for the 80GB FreeBSD disk for the
> workstation is this:
>
> / = 512MB (too spacey, but that should be plenty for future releases)

Actually, on large disks I give / 1G.  Why?  Because, in the unlikely
event that Something Bad happens, that would be plenty of room to hold a
FreeBSD ISO image, or some other ISO image for some kind of recovery
tool.

> swap = 3GB (see notes below)

This strikes even me as too much.  It's not like Windows, where it'll
use swap even if it doesn't need it.  Double your RAM is probably more
than enough.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA