RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM
Thank all of you for really helpful answers. I am thinking about this configuration (might be helpful for someone in the future) a: / (root) 256 MB b: /swap 4096 MB d: /tmp768 MB e: /usr 8192 MB f: /var 2048 MB g: /home all the rest. Think that 8GB will be enough for /usr ports, local and build os from scratch, and 2GB for /var - in any case I can symlink some of those to /home So we need about 15GB of free storage only for FreeBSD needs. Thx Alex -Original Message- From: Nikola Lečić [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:13 PM To: Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:41 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikola, > > Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. > > Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t > know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half of year > I have about 4GB outlook mail db. So 1GB for /var might be not enough > in my case. The hier(7) manpage is very useful to understand the default directory structure: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html As for mail, it depends on how you plan to receive and handle it; if you just download mail from pop3 account, it will be stored in your home by a mail client (this goes as well for mail you export from Outlook to e.g. Thunderbird). For locally (system) delivered mail, /var/spool is the default place, but unless you want yo use your laptop as a mail server, it's unlikely you will store your mail there. > Having /home as part of /usr is the good point. But in case of backup > it make sense to have /home as separate partition. What you think > about this? Of course it's very useful for backups. I just thought it was useful to warn you about how much space /usr/ports could need because the default installation procedure on FreeBSD is to compile sources (of thirs party applications and of FreeBSD itself). As a useful example on how much space you might need, here are rough sizes on my home desktop computer, used for everyday work. I have ~850 ports installed. /usr/ports~2G (with current distfiles and packages that happen to be there + you will need at least 2-3G for large upgrades, sometimes > 10G) /usr/local~5G (third party applications + additions such as TeXLive = ~1G) /usr/home~20G - /usr total used: ~30G (includes FreeBSD itself + some other smaller storages) If you plan to build FreeBSD itself in the future, then /usr must be even bigger. If all this leaves enough room for /home for you, then it's certainly very useful to make it separate partition. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM
Nikola, Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half of year I have about 4GB outlook mail db. So 1GB for /var might be not enough in my case. Having /home as part of /usr is the good point. But in case of backup it make sense to have /home as separate partition. What you think about this? Thx Alex -Original Message- From: Nikola Lečić [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:57 AM To: Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:17:50 -0800 "Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD > and 2GB RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will > be used to web development (RubyOnRails), entertaiment (photo, music, > video), web browsing and emailing, so no server side task will be > handled. > > How you suggest to split 80GB between partitions to solve all laptop > tasks. Here is partitions: > /root > /var > /usr > /home > /swap Hi Alexander, You can find the recommendations regarding partition sizes in "Allocating Disk Space" chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html This means that your partition layout should be like this: / 512M swap 4096M (2x RAM) /tmp512M /var 1024M /usrrest /var's size depends, among other things, on how many logs you want to keep there (where they live by default); since your machine will not be a server, 512M should be ok. Please note that /var/db/, the default place for info about ports installed, occupies roughly 200M or more. /usr depends on how many applications you need to run. Please note that /usr is also the default place where applications will be compiled (inside /usr/ports) and where a lot of distfiles (sources) or (precompiled) packages will be stored, so huge upgrades can take a lot of place. [Some applications need ~500M (Firefox), ~1G (gcc42) or several gigabytes (OpenOffice) to compile. Distfiles can use 1-3G, depending on cleaning policy you choose.] Therefore, since you have 80G, it's not a bad idea to use /usr for /home as well (i.e. to have /usr only; home will be /usr/home, symlinked from /home). Otherwise, you can easily encounter too much (wasted) or too little free space on /usr. I've recently configured a laptop with the aforementioned partition sizes (with smaller swap). (Besides this, don't forget to read about the difference between "dedicated" and "sliced" disks in the Handbook.) Regards, -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM
Why /var partition is so big? How it will be used? -Original Message- From: Frank Bonnet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:35 AM To: Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) Subject: Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote: > Hi all > > I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD and 2GB > RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will be used to web > development (RubyOnRails), entertaiment (photo, music, video), > web browsing and emailing, so no server side task will be handled. > > How you suggest to split 80GB between partitions to solve all laptop tasks. > Here is partitions: > /root > /var > /usr > /home > /swap > oops you miss the / partition ! I suggest / 2 Gb /var10 Gb /usr30 Gb swap2 Gb the rest for /root and /home -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet ESIEE Paris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM
Hi all I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD and 2GB RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will be used to web development (RubyOnRails), entertaiment (photo, music, video), web browsing and emailing, so no server side task will be handled. How you suggest to split 80GB between partitions to solve all laptop tasks. Here is partitions: /root /var /usr /home /swap Thx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
