Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)

[Sunil Sunder Raj]

Hi,
No one want the /usr partition to get full. You don't know what users may 
put in the /home partition. So the best option will be create two partitions 
with about 25% to /usr and 75% to the other.

Regards
SSR



>From: "Guilmot Mike" <malenki at pandora.be>
>To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Subject: Re: Partitioning advice (/usr and /home)
>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:15:47 +0200
>
>Michael Vondung wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out a decent partitioning layout for a
> > workstation. The system has an ~80GB disk. After /, /var, /tmp and
> > swap, I have 70GB left. I'm wondering how to split these between /usr
> > and /home. Ironically, it is more space than I seem to need. The box
> > has only one user (me), I do not have a fast enough connection to
> > download large amounts audio or video files. I plan to run the KDE3
> > desktop environment with most of its applications (this is still well
> > under 1.5GB), assorted other software, Wine, two or three Windows
> > apps if they'll run.
> >
> > I'm torn between various options here, and would appreciate your
> > input:
> >
> > 35GB for each, /usr and /home
> > 25GB for /home and 45GB for /home
> > 70GB for both together (no /home partition)
> >
> > Or something completely different? I'd like this to be "spacey"
> > enough so that I won't run out of room at some point in the future,
> > but 35GB for /usr seems unrealistically much (there won't be mail on
> > this system, it's fed by an IMAP server on a different machine). Then
> > again, 35GB for /home seems just as unrealistically much.
> >
> > Backup matters aside, is there a significant advantage of having a
> > separate /home partition at all? If not, just skipping /home and
> > using 70GB for /usr (including /usr/home) might be the most practical
> > and flexible approach?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>This might sound stupid, but I did it like this:
>
>Whole partition on /usr, and I made the home directories as:
>
>/usr/home/$USER instead of /home/$USER
>
>And I did not make a special partition for /usr/home, since I did not know
>how much space I would need.
>Maybe you could try that out too ...
>
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Guilmot Mike
>
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