Recommended partitioning

[Andrew P.]

On 10/16/05, Teo De Las Heras <teoheras at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Teo De Las Heras <teoheras at gmail.com>
> Date: Oct 15, 2005 4:11 PM
> Subject: Feeback on partitioning
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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> I'm getting ready to set up a single system as a mail, print, web, and file
> server. I may be installing other applications but nothing as intense as
> Xorg. If at all, I'll probably just install some network monitoring tools.
> I'm placing all of these roles on a single system because it is only for my
> lab. I have a 160 GB to use and I'm thinking about laying out the partitions
> as follows:
>  Part Size
> / 10G - for both the / and /usr files
> (swap) 2G
> /var 10G - Web server, print spool, other log files??
> /var/mail 10G - for all mail files and easy backup
> /home 50G - for all user files
> /home/teo 40G - For my files and easy backup
> *The rest of the space I'll leave unused in case I need to grow a partition
>  I'm new to FreeBSD/*Nix so all criticism is welcome.
>  Teo
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FreeBSD is flexible enough to handle any directory
layout you like. No matter what background you
come from, you can always turn a few knobs -
and make yourself at home.

But if you want to stay with FreeBSD for some
time, if you want to know it better, it's best to
accept the installer's defaults - and get used
to them then. Minimum /, small /var and /tmp,
huge /usr - where all huge things are meant
to be, including web content, home dirs and
even huge logs and huge temporary files.

The talk is that hier and partitioning might
need some brushing up, but for now, if
you stick to it, you'll find it hard to run into
real trouble when you're left with no solution
other than repartitioning your whole disk.