Of course, if this is a workstation you're setting up, don't bother with any
of that and just use a single / partition (and maybe a MFS /tmp). No need to
be sophisticated.
--Renaud
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel C. Sobral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Don Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Is this how to use Freebsd?
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > That's a typlical 'Linux' partitioning choice, personally I dislike it
> > and prefer something link:
> >
> > 120M /
> > 300M /var
> > 2xRAM swap (limit 1 gig)
> > rest /usr
>
> I like having a separate /tmp. / can then be 50 or 60 Mb. But,
> particularly, a 300Mb /var depends heavily on what the machine is being
> used for. It could well languish with 290 Mb free for some kinds of
> servers, and particularly for desktop machines.
>
> > /usr may be split into /usr and /usr/home, if so /usr usually gets
> > about 1.5gigs and /usr/home gets the rest.
>
> /usr and /home, please. :-) That's our default.
>
> > A couple of suggestions:
> >
> > 1) please wrap lines at 70 characters when posting to the list.
>
> Furthermore, DO NOT send html-formatted messages. I, for one, delete
> without even reading all html-formatted messages.
>
> --
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