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[gaf]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:04:53 +0100
>gaf <moak at bredband.net> wrote:
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>>I have read the handbook but have been following (It´s easier to have a 
>>book in front of you when installing).  The Complete FreeBSD  4th 
>>edition when installing, where Greg Lehey recommends the partitioning  
>>that I have running right now so.....
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>HE DOES NOT.
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> >/                     4G
> >swap          800M
> >/home           35G
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>NOP. No way.
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>What he says and you forgot to do is something about sym-linking /tmp to
>/var/tmp, if memory serves. If you want to extent this to have symlinks like this:
>/tmp --> /home/tmp
>/usr --> /home/usr
>/var --> /home/var
>you can. But there is no reason to do so.
>In fact the default setup is just the other way:
>/home --> /usr/home
>Please refer to hier(7) to see layout of FreeBSD.
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>Grog's book was for a few years the only one available and it's my personal
>favorite. Nevertheless the FreeBSD handbook is the official reference.
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>>as a newbie how should I know which one is the most accurate?  Now I 
>>know you ll say the handbook, so from now on I will follow the handbook.
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>Read Grog's book, it makes a few times every cent you have spent on it.
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>>Thanks for answering
>>gaf
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I have the book in front of me.....sorry  but there are nothing said 
about symlinks.
It says:
" Creating the file systems
With these considerations in mind, we´ll divide up the disk in the 
following manner:
4G for the root file system, which includes /usr and /var
512M swap space
The rest of the disk for /home file system"

Next is "Selecting distributions"
I can´t figure out any other way to decipher this........do you???