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Re: Partition sizes question



Hi Dave,

I'd use 512 for swap. A bit less for home maybe, depending on what you
want to use the machine for...

But definately "a bit" more for /var (over 1GB, I'd suggest). Bigger /tmp
can be useful too (256M?).


Good luck,

--Josef D.

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, David Kanter wrote:

> I have a desktop machine and wonder if these sizes for OpenBSD partitions 
> seem OK.
> 
> /		64M
> swap		256M (have 128M of physical RAM)
> /var		32M
> /tmp		32M
> /usr		1000M
> /usr/src	1500M (will hold the ports collection as well)
> /usr/obj	500M
> /home		1000M
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> Dave
> 
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