The question that wont die: What size partitions should I make?

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:40:01PM -0500, wrangled wrote:
> 
> I have dual-boot laptop, 30GB Fat32 Win2000 and 70GB FreeBSD 6.0-R. I 
> plan to use this for normal home desktop use (not as a server). I have 
> 512MB RAM.
> 
> According to this page:
> 
>   
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
> 
> I should use:
> 
>   / = 100MB
>   /swap = 1GB
>   /var = 50MB
>  /usr = rest (68GB)

Some apps make heavy use of /tmp. It's wise to have that on a separate
slice. 

> I want /usr to be as big as possible (obviously), so my primary user 
> account will have as much space as possible in /use/home/<account>.

I'd make /home into a separate slice. Easier for backups. You can easily
reinstall ports, but if you loose your personal data...

> Should I use:
> 
>   / = 1GB
>   /swap = 1GB
>   /var = 5GB
>  /usr = rest (63GB)

Running 6.0-STABLE on my amd64 workstation with 260 ports installed, 
'df -m' gives the following:

Filesystem  1M-blocks  Used Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ar0s1a       495    77   379    17%    /
/dev/ar0s1g    123067 21700 91521    19%    /home
/dev/ar0s1e       495     0   456     0%    /tmp
/dev/ar0s1f     19832  3601 14643    20%    /usr
/dev/ar0s1d      1963    55  1751     3%    /var

So I'd say, give / 0.5 GB, /usr 5GB, /tmp .5 GB, /var 1.5 GB and give the
rest to /home.

Roland
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