Manual Partitioning for a Gaming / Multimedia PC
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 8:12 pm
Hi,
I have never done a manual partitioning setup for a BSD OS, so I am wondering if someone could please give me some general directions for what would be reasonable sizes for each partition. Besides of some games and a lot of music/video files and pictures I would also like to install for example Blender 3D.
The hardware setup is a 500GB hard drive and 8GB of RAM.
I have seen a default partition order which displayed " / , SWAP , /var , and /usr " , but I am thinking that having a separate /home would be good. So maybe 5 partitions.....?
If someone could please tell me what the needed sizes should be for the system related partitions with the presented scenario I would really appreciate it. That would also be taking into account that there would be some additional programs being installed in the future. I am thinking that half of the RAM amount would be more than enough for the SWAP.
Second, I am wondering what the different UFS options means. More specifically UFS+S and UFS+J. I have read that the UFS+SUJ option is the default filesystem type as it virtually eliminates the need to run fsck, and that this version of UFS adds a light version of journaling to Soft Updates (the one developed for FreeBSD by Kirk McKusick ? ) to prevent data loss in the unfortunate event of a sudden system shutdown.
Thanks
I have never done a manual partitioning setup for a BSD OS, so I am wondering if someone could please give me some general directions for what would be reasonable sizes for each partition. Besides of some games and a lot of music/video files and pictures I would also like to install for example Blender 3D.
The hardware setup is a 500GB hard drive and 8GB of RAM.
I have seen a default partition order which displayed " / , SWAP , /var , and /usr " , but I am thinking that having a separate /home would be good. So maybe 5 partitions.....?
If someone could please tell me what the needed sizes should be for the system related partitions with the presented scenario I would really appreciate it. That would also be taking into account that there would be some additional programs being installed in the future. I am thinking that half of the RAM amount would be more than enough for the SWAP.
Second, I am wondering what the different UFS options means. More specifically UFS+S and UFS+J. I have read that the UFS+SUJ option is the default filesystem type as it virtually eliminates the need to run fsck, and that this version of UFS adds a light version of journaling to Soft Updates (the one developed for FreeBSD by Kirk McKusick ? ) to prevent data loss in the unfortunate event of a sudden system shutdown.
Thanks