Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 22:34:46 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> To: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Staying -current with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199709291304.WAA03763@al.imforei.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com>
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In article <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com> you wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:21:09 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > Ok, so how about a semi-definitive answer to that age-old > question. I want to know how much hard disk space I should allocate > for a fairly complete freebsd system. I'm talking binaries, CVS source > tree, and room to make the world. I'll add swap space and room for my > files as needed. Assume a fairly luxurious system with some games, > ports, etc. Disk space is fairly cheap right now, but it's always good > to plan ahead. Any takers? :) a make world can chew up a bit, as well as the cvs tree, x, the ports, and the rest... i found last time i built a release i needed a bit over a gig scratch to do it in.. lets say 2Gb and you shouldn't have space problems.. not for a few weeks anyway :) peter (churning along with much less than 2Gb..) PS. make sure its scsi (just to add fuel to religious wars..) -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key
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