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Hi
Petros,
Unless
you plan to install a large number of packages, run a huge mail/news spool, etc.
Then this is fine. I strongly urge you read FAQ sections 1-4 and PRINT
OUT the entire section 4 (Or at least the partition information).
You should also read the install guide for your architecture and print out
select portions. If this is your main system, you'll need a hand if something
goes wrong... Oh, and use a utility to backup your partition table before
playing with the partition table... fumble fingers syndrome is a real
bummer.
After you read this, and are confused by the issue of creating
sub-partitions within the main OpenBSD partition then you might want to plan for
something like:
/ -
500 Megs
swap -
250 megs (If you will not be installing a database or compiling big programs) or
500 megs (Installing MySQL or other big compile job)
/usr
2.5 GB (For the Source, X11, and Ports trees and plenty of space for ports and
forgetting to make distclean after downloading them all ;>
)
/var - 500 MB
/var/log - pick a size; the idea is that this how much logs to keep so if
/var/log fills up your whole system does not get weird. I tend to need 500MB but
I do allot of logging. You'll probably never need this much but better safe then
sorry. You can certainly skimp here if you need to.
-- sub
Total 4.25 GB - 4.5 GB
--
remaining 500 MB
/home
- pick a size or make / bigger. This depends on how many users (besides
root) you will have.
/tmp -
really depends on your needs a few hundred megs is more than enough out side of
servers you really want to keep this on a separate
partition.
You
can also ask the list for more help.
Note
that this scheme will undoubtedly be open for (heated) debate :> The ideal
solution depends on allot issues like if you're using a server, what programs
you'll be running and how you're using the system. If the above is really
confusing just go with the FAQ defaults. This is because you can always get more
space by mounting your other OS disks later in the game where you need a hand (I
use /usr/local/storage for a nice mount point)
HTH,
Sam Stern -----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org]On Behalf Of Petros Sidiropoulos Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:09 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: plan to install OpenBSD 2.8
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