From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 29 06:05:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA08968 for current-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA08954 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 06:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (beBop) id WAA03763; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 22:34:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 22:34:46 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199709291304.WAA03763@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: "Studded" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Staying -current with FreeBSD Newsgroups: apana.lists.os.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970731; i386 FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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