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Suggested partitioning

Suggested partitioning

Posted May 6, 2004 18:12 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
Parent article: OpenBSD 3.5: a peek at another free Unix

oseemann covered the OpenBSD security features that Ladislav somehow
missed, but one other thing missed is that OpenBSD actually does give a
recommended partitioning scheme.

The 3.5 CD insert says that for i386, the filesystems should be at least
this big:
60MB /
250MB /usr
200MB /var
85MB /usr/X11R6
(Other architectures are also listed.)

The install instructions include this example partition scheme:
a: 80M /
b: 300M swap
d: 80M /tmp
e: 80M /var
g: 2G /usr
h: 111G /home (rest of disk)


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