On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 02:21:09AM -0600, VaX#n8 wrote:
> I find myself needing to repartition again, probably due to an increase
> in the number of programs in /, presumably most are statically linked.
> 103% full is a bad place to be.

Yikes. :)

> What kind of partition sizes and schemes are people using?
> Another BSD suggests / swap /usr /var /tmp /var/tmp /home, possibly also
> /usr/local and /usr/X11R6.  Anyone care to comment on that scheme?

I usually have / swap /usr /var /tmp, at least, and if the machine has more
users than just root and myself, I usually put in /home as well.  On my
laptop I decided to use mfs for /tmp, but I'm not sure if this is a good
solution if you're running out of memory with a regular /tmp already.

On one-purpose machines like name servers, I may use / swap /usr only
(no need for a large /var if there are no users receiving mail on the
system or doing any other /var intensive things).

  -jm