Now after doing a bit of research and all your fantastic feedback I have decided on the below partitions for my 750 GB hardrive . And few questions still remain but here goes.
/ = 2gb
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Most say 512mb is enough but have got a lot of harddrive space so using 2gb which should still put all of root in the outermost track of the harddrive for good speed
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swapdrive = 2 x8gb =16gb
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Recommendation is x2 to x4 of your ram I have 8 GB ram
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/tmp = 10gb
/usr = 30gb
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According to the FreeBSD hier(7) man page, programs installed from the ports system are installed in /usr/local. So by creating a separate filesystem for /usr/local you will separate your applications from the remainder of the system.
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/var/db = 50gb
/var/log = 10gb
/var/mail = 20gb
/var = 100gb
/home = remaining . The plan is to host the websites files from the home directory so will need the most space as log of images file etc.
Questions:
1] /usr = 30gb is it better to give /usr/local =20gb and /usr = 30 gb or just have /usr = 30 gb
2] would it be better to create another directory say /www for the sites I will be hosting ? was thinking of putting them in /home as a subdirectory. There is just going to be one user.
3] /var/mail = 20gb is that enough for a moderately busy website. what would be the size of /var/mail of a typical mailserver.
Anything else you think I should be doing would be most grateful for your help
thank you.
List of links I felt were useful.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SE&format=html
http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/install.phtml
http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=291&pid=2
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&sektion=7
http://groups.google.com/group/lucky...c0e3075befea76
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ry/073534.html