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)
On past FreeBSD installs, I would occasionaly do things as root, and ran
out of space in /root. Since then, on desktop machines (with 250GB
drives), I would make / be 4GB. On my lapatop, I wouldn't want to give
up 4 of my 70 gigs if I didn't have to. So I am looking for a realistic
number that wont cramp me, and wont waste too much space. I am planning
on 1GB, so it will be big enough to hold the contents of a 700MB CD ISO.
I have no idea how much of /var I need, other than I like to install
various packages to try them out, and I would not want to limit
something like a webserver or email server if I chose to run one for
limited use. A friend took the default install suggestions for a
machine he planned to do some web development on, and said his /var was
way too small (they were new to FreeBSD also). I am guessing 5GB for
/var would allow me to run a mail-server (for personal use) and
Apache+extensions for limited website developement
A swap of 1GB is fine, I'm not sure I've ever actually used any swap on
my machines that had more than 128MB.
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>.
Should I use:
/ = 1GB
/swap = 1GB
/var = 5GB
/usr = rest (63GB)
?
thanks!
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