On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > > > Many thanks guys for all the advice!!!! :-) > > It is really appreciated! > > Sorry haven't snipped more stuff into this mail but things are a bit > hectic here but what I will say is this; in a few hours once the BSD 8 > DVD ISO comes in I will attempt an install and have a look at what's what. > > The server will be constructed first and then I will look at the GUI > environment with Vbox. > > I reckon the proposed disk usage spec from the FreeBSD hand book should > suffice though shouldn't it??
IMO the root slice is too small in the handbook. You should make it 2GB, since you've got the space. > > With a larger HD I would normally do something like 15 - 25GB / (root) > partition and the rest for /home with round 1.5 - 3GB for swap. > > Now my HD is round 40GB so I will do a minimal install and try to > maximize the /home slice! As result only services I will run are DNS, > NTP, SAMBA and NFS. What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g: # ln -s /usr/home /home 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 > > I suppose I could get away with something like 2GB for / which would > then contain /tmp, /etc, /root, /boot etc..... 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. > > Only 2 machines will be connected, my uncles Win XP box and my > Linux/Solaris system. Should work fine. Just remember to make your /home and /tmp symlinks as soon as you first boot up. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
