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From: rand@cs.UND.NoDak.Edu (Douglas K. Rand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Partitions on a 500 Mbyte disk
Date: 23 Sep 1993 12:33:47 -0500
Organization: University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
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I've got a Maxtor 500 Mbyte disk that I'm going to install NetBSD 0.9
on (it is currently on a 213 Mbyte disk). I was wondering if anybody
had any net.wisdom on how to setup the partitions. Here is what I've
thought of so far:

	root		15  Mbytes
	swap		40  Mbytes (is 2xRAM right for 20 Mbytes of RAM?)
	/usr		200 Mbytes
	/usr/local	100 Mbytes

Should I be doing a partition for /var? I don't expect to be running
news, but mail, uucp, and printing will be running.

Any suggestions?
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Douglas K. Rand                     UND Aerospace - Scientific Computing Center
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