Partition sizes

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> I'll be installing FBSD 5.3 on an 80GB hard drive (machine has 512MB of
> RAM) and was considering the following partitions:
> 
> /
> /usr
> /usr/local
> /var
> /var/tmp
> /tmp
> /home
> SWAP

For that big a main disk, my likely division would be something like:

   /     512 MB
   swap  1.25 GB
   /tmp  512 MB
   /usr  2 GB
   /var  4 GB
   /home all remaining disk - probably be about 66 GB before newfsing.

Then, I wouldn't have a separate /usr/local or /var/tmp partitions.
I would use /tmp for tmp stuff and since /var is big, not worry about 
the few things that want to assume tmp is in var.
For /usr/local, /usr/src and /usr/ports, I would copy them 
in to home as /home/usr.local  /home/usr.src and /home/usr.ports and 
then make sym links to them in /usr
If that sounds confusing, check the archive.  I and several others
have posted detailed steps to do it several times over the last year
or so.

If you are going to do a database or something that will really
eat up space in /var, then you might want to move some of that
to /home in a similar manner.  If you don't have any of that
stuff, you might want to cut /var in half.   If you install Apache
(or another web server), this should accomodate that too.  You would
most likely be putting your document root in something that lives
in /home -   maybe in /usr/local  (which is really /home/usr.local)
or just in /home/some_user_id/www   or whatever so since the big
user of space is the web pages themselves, it will be using up the
most space in /home too.

Have fun,

////jerry

   
> 
> I'm looking for some recommendations around what the partition sizes
> should be assuming I'm allocating the entire disk to FreeBSD.  It will
> be a used as a desktop and not a server, but I'd be curious about the
> sizing differences as I'll be setting up a similar machine as a
> mail/FTP/web server.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Cheers,
> Trey
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