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Old 14th January 2009
J65nko J65nko is offline
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http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning mentions several things to consider in partioning your disk.

Another thing to keep in mind is the memory needed for a fsck. From the same OpenBSD faq:
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fsck(8) time and memory requirements

Another consideration with large file systems is the time and memory required to fsck(8) the file system after a crash or power interruption. One should not put a 120G file system on a system with 32M of RAM and expect it to successfully fsck(8) after a crash. A rough guideline is the system should have at least 1M of available memory for every 1G of disk space to successfully fsck the disk. Swap can be used here, but at a very significant performance penalty, so severe that it is usually unacceptable, except in special cases.
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