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 -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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