netbsd-help: Re: Best partitioning scheme?

Subject: Re: Best partitioning scheme?
To: None <luc-netbsd@braziliantranslation.net>
From: Johan A.van Zanten <johan@giantfoo.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/23/2006 17:45:41

Luciano ES <luc-netbsd@braziliantranslation.net> wrote:
> Hi. I am want to have a NetBSD-based desktop box and intend to use the 
> following partitioning scheme in a 20 Gb disk:
> 
> label	mount	Mb
> a	/ 	500
> b	swap	1,000
> e	/tmp	1,200
> f	/var	600
> g	/usr	10,000
> h	/home	7,000
> 
> I have considerable experience with Linux, but almost zero experience with 
> BSDs. I have Slackware using almost 6 Gb, and since I intend to install 
> NetBSD plus all the Linux compatibility stuff and a handful of Linux 
> programs, I figured I'd need at least 10 Gb in /usr. But it is just an 
> estimate. I am not sure at all.
> 
> What do you think of this scheme? Am I giving too much more or less space than 
> I should to any partition? All comments are more than welcome.
 This is my main imap, smtp, and web server. It has X11R6 and compiled
 pkgs installed in /usr.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 123646 45677 71787 38% /
/dev/sd0f 985843 275920 660631 29% /var
/dev/sd0g 1016452 785641 179989 81% /usr
/dev/sd0h 6365303 3657263 2389775 60% /local
mfs:115 63471 28 60270 0% /tmp
 NetBSD is quite a bit leaner than the Linux distributions i've seen.
 /usr/X11R6 is about 150 MB
 I have about 350 MB of packages installed (/usr/pkg), but this isn't a
 desktop, so you may want to plan on more like 1 GB of packages, for
 things like Mozilla or Firefox.
 My NetBSD & pkgsrc sources are on a NFS mounted file system -- they can
 be quite large. My NetBSD-3 src tree, complete with compiled versions of
 NetBSD for three architectures and all the compiled object files uses
 about 5 GB . My pkgsrc area uses about 600 MB.
The Build area for pkgsrc (which you can define to be anywhere) needs to
 be multiple GB for large things like Mozilla.
 I think you /usr is probably on the large side, but it just depends on
 where you end up putting NetBSD and pkgsrc sources, if you plan to
 install them.
 Hope that helps.
 -johan