Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:

[...]

What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:

# ln -s /usr/home /home

ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.

So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.

How I'd slice up the disk:

2GB for /
2GB for swap
2GB for /var
34GB for /usr


Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to
have /var and /usr filesystems separate??

You can have /var on the same slice but because it's a filesystem
that's constantly being read & written to it's usual to keep it
separate from your "static" partitions.


I guess it must be similar to the way Solaris handles things when UFS
based (not ZFS).....

The /home partition then is very similar to Solaris in that /export/home
is considered the user directory. Means BSD stores /home in /usr/home??

Again, it's just a common practice. Due to the PC BIOS, IIRC you're
restricted to 4 slices.




Should be OK but /tmp symlinked to /usr/tmp as some things can really
fill up /tmp. For example, IIRC OpenOffice needs gigs of temp space
to build.


OpenOffice or IIRC is for GUI based usage and not CLI. Since this will
be a simple server no GUI or work will be done on the machine itself in
terms of keyboard/mouse setup. Normally I work through SSH so will be
much easier once I have network connectivity up and running after
initial install :-)

OK. You may want to make /tmp a separate slice. You can always make it
a symlink into /usr at a latter date if you repurpose the machine.

You would find that FreeBSD works quite well as a workstation even
with that limited hardware.



Should work fine. Just remember to make your /home and /tmp symlinks
as soon as you first boot up.

Regards,


Thanks!!!


BTW, you mentioned you were going to use packages. If I were you I'd
build from source. It's less problematic in my experience and since
FreeBSD multitasks so well it's not much of a pain. You've got plenty
of room for the ports tree.

Best of luck with your installation!

Regards,

--

Frank

Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html


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