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#! rnews 1709 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!news.express.ca!not-for-mail From: admin@express.ca (Adminstrator) Subject: HD partitions for running news? Message-ID: <197cc$c1817.23a@news.express.ca> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 20:24:23 GMT Organization: Internet Express X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 18 Well I am about to re-install FreeBSD 2.1 for the sole purpose of being a news server and am wondering on what size to make the partitions. I have a 4 gig drive and am currently thinking of leaving / at 40 megs as the install suggests, giving /usr maybe 400 megs for the actual news software (INN) and the rest to /var, about 3.6 gigs. This should be plenty of room for INN and the history file and give lots of room for the new spool. One question I have is the size of the swap file, I hear twice available memory, is this true even if I have 64 megs? Also is 64 megs enough to run a full news feed, (it sure isn't when running Windows NT). Do these sizes seem reasonable or will I run into problems later? One other thing, during the FreeBSD install I don't recall seeing anything about how many inodes to use when formatting partitions, as in a Linux install. Will FreeBSD have enough for a news spool partition on default install? Any comments/suggestions from other's experience would be greatly appreciated.