New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

[Kaya Saman]

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> What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
>
> # ln -s /usr/home /home
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> ditto for /tmp.  i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
> the root partition.
>
> So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.
>
> How I'd slice up the disk:
>
> 2GB for /
> 2GB for swap
> 2GB for /var
> 34GB for /usr
>   

Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to 
have /var and /usr filesystems separate??

I guess it must be similar to the way Solaris handles things when UFS 
based (not ZFS).....

The /home partition then is very similar to Solaris in that /export/home 
is considered the user directory. Means BSD stores /home in /usr/home??

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>
> Should be OK but /tmp symlinked to /usr/tmp as some things can really
> fill up /tmp. For example, IIRC OpenOffice needs gigs of temp space
> to build.
>   

OpenOffice or IIRC is for GUI based usage and not CLI. Since this will 
be a simple server no GUI or work will be done on the machine itself in 
terms of keyboard/mouse setup. Normally I work through SSH so will be 
much easier once I have network connectivity up and running after 
initial install :-)
>   
>
> Should work fine. Just remember to make your /home and /tmp symlinks
> as soon as you first boot up.
>
> Regards,
>
>   
Thanks!!!


--Kaya