Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM

[Brian]

James Harrison wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:26 -0800, Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) wrote:
>   
>> Nikola,
>>
>> Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments.
>>
>> Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t
>> know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half of year
>> I have about 4GB outlook mail db. So 1GB for /var might be not enough
>> in my case.
>>
>> Having /home as part of /usr is the good point. But in case of backup
>> it make sense to have /home as separate partition. What you think about this?
>>
>> Thx
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
> /home is just a symlink to /usr/home, so that wouldn't help.
>
>
> cd /
> ls -l
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        8 Nov  2 05:37 home -> usr/home
>
>
> You might want to put /usr/home on a separate partition, but that's your
> call.
>
> James
>
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I know of people that put /usr/home on a separate physical disk, then 
they can recover more easily in the event of a system catastrophe.

Brian