Slices

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-12-13 09:36, Sasa Stupar <sasa at stupar.homelinux.net> wrote:
>> The main two reasons for dividing up your FreeBSD disk in to
>> partitions rather than making just one big partition are to reduce
>> the threat of runaway processes and to manage backup and restore
>> sizes.
>>
>> Think those things out to meet your needs and resources.
>
> OK. But then what would be ideal slice size for /, /var, /usr, /boot?

That's not something that can be answered easily with a "template"
answer.  The best sizes are those that match your own needs and
preferences, but only you can describe what these are.'

Back when I bought a new, bigger disk, I wrote this post:

  http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/2004-10-26/daemonizing-a-new-disk

which includes a description of the partitions I used and why I chose
these sizes.

The tuning(7) manpage also has a good description of how to pick a good
disk partitioning scheme:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tuning&sektion=7&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Ports