See FAQ 4.6.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#SpaceNeeded

You forgot the swap partition.  Also, your / is probably way overkill.
 I haven't run a production mail/list/ftp server, so I can't speak for
the remaining estimates.

--david

On 1/20/06, M... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm playing with OpenBSD 3.8 and would like some
> comments/advice on partitioning.
> I have a 500MHz test machine, 256MB RAM, 4GB H/D,
> 100/1Gb intel ethernet card.
>
> Most of the examples show separate partitions for
>
> /
> /tmp
> /var
> /usr
> /home
>
> I want to run a mailsever (20 users),
> (spamassasin/clamav) mailing list server (20 lists),
> ftp and web servers, (maybe 100MB or so of data)
> adding them in and seeing how it handles the load.
>
> I was thinking of doing
>
> / = 500MB
> /tmp - 100MB
> /usr - 1GB
> /var - 1GB
> /home - 1.4GB
>
> or should I just have a root and home partitions ?
>
> I'm not really sure about the sizing for /tmp or /var
> so I want to be economical with the limited space.
>
> Opinions please.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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