Time to reinstall FreeBSD

Back in November 2009 I installed my NAS with the newest FreeBSD: 8.0. I made some choices about partitioning that I now want to redo.

My initial partitioning was

• / had around 4.5 GB
• /tmp had around 0.5 GB
• /var had around 3 GB
• /home had around 895 GB

And back then I actually decided that the 2 GB RAM in the server was enough, so I didn’t have a swap partition 

First – having no swap is bad when the server is very busy! And for home use there is no need to separate /tmp and /var from /. And last – the / partition was way too small. I was having trouble using ports all the time, and need to clean up very often…

So I found a new HD for the new boot disk. Luckily I had a WD Caviar Green 1TB  with 64 MB cache. Perfect!

I settled for the following partitioning

• / has around 39 GB
• /home has around 873 GB
• And swap has 4 GB