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Old 13th October 2011
J65nko J65nko is offline
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Because I use dump for backups, I always create a separate partition for /home.

If it is part of "/usr" and want to create a backup with dump, you have to backup everything in "/usr". Then the backup includes the "/usr/{bin,sbin,local}" directories which roughly make up 80% of the FreeBSD base install. So by having a separate home, you have to backup less

I don't know the amount of disk space you have reserved for FreeBSD , but I would suggest to increase "/usr" from 5 to 10 GB.

Whatever you choose, most users after finding out how much space they actually need, usually will reinstall FreeBSD after one or two weeks anyway
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