New installation. Slices and Partition scheme doubts

[leo2501]

Well I decided to try out freebsd in my netbook (msi Wind), but I have some doubts about the "partition" scheme and the "slices"...

- do I need a huge slice, and put every partition there? or it's better to have a slice for every partition or for a couple of them?
- it's the /home dir inside the /usr dir?


now in linux I have the partitions (The disk is a 120gb):

/ 10 gb
swap 1 gb
/home 10 gb
/sda4* 90~ gb
*/sda4 is the partition where I put everything I download, and media files, yes I don't like them in my home)

But I want to have /var /tmp and /usr in different partitions as well because I like that scheme, I saw it in the handbook, so the new freebsd partition scheme will be something like this:

1gb /
1gb Swap
1gb /var
1gb /tmp
9gb /usr
10gb /home
90~gb /sda4

so keep those comments coming! :)

[vivek]

FreeBSD automatically slice it up for you if you press a during disk setup while installing the system. Here is how it looks on my own workstation (/disk1 is my backup disk):
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a 1.6G 432M 999M 30% /
devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ad4s1d 1.6G 1.4M 1.4G 0% /tmp
/dev/ad4s1f 217G 6.0G 194G 3% /usr
/dev/ad4s1e 21G 541M 19G 3% /var
/dev/ad6s1 243G 88G 135G 40% /disk1
devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /usr/jail/internet/dev


Read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/install-steps.html

[phoenix]

Think of FreeBSD slices like DOS extended partitions. You only need 1, and then you partition it up for your individual filesystems.

Personally, I like using:
/
/usr
/usr/local
/var
/home

For desktops, though, you could probably reduce that to just / and /home.

[leo2501]

aaah thank you guys! now i understand the slices :)