RE: Win2K, OBSD and Filesystems

[Peter Bance <Minstrel@minstrel.org.uk>]

Seth,

Thanks for responding:

>The FAQ does list some suggested partition sizes, though note that if
>you wish to compile OpenBSD yourself, you will need more space in
>/usr/src.

I intend to make /usr as big as I can.

>You can fit /home into 100 megs? Wow. :) BTW -- I have the sources and
>the ports tree under my /usr, and mine only takes up one gig -- no X,
>though. I would suggest putting 500 megs towards /home.
>
>> Would it be useful to have any other devices mounted at boot time?
>
>I'm not sure I understand....

It was thing like /home I meant - it's not mentioned in the installation 
guide, and only here and there in FAQs.  As I said, I'm quite new to OpenBSD, 
so I wasn't sure which areas I would need to beef up...

Here's what I'm planning now:

o / - 100MB
o swap - 256MB (in case something breaks and sucks up _a lot_ of RAM :o)
o /home - 512MB (would 1GB be useful, or just too much?!)
o /var - 100MB
o /usr - all the rest (~2GB!)

Does that look reasonable?

--
Peter Bance
http://www.minstrel.org.uk/