From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 8:25:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8FF037B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:25:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from diana.northnetworks.ca (att-ws20.switchview.com [216.13.70.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A6543F75 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Received: from localhost (iaccounts@localhost) by diana.northnetworks.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2CGPKc27771; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:25:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from iaccounts@northnetworks.ca) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:25:20 -0500 (EST) From: IAccounts To: buckweet@JEAH.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning In-Reply-To: <200303121600.h2CG0d5R002701@awww.jeah.net> Message-ID: <20030312112328.O4567-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Can you send me some information about how much space freebsd will take > up, i want to keep Win XP as my main OS ... Thanks. Although Free can be installed on a partition under 500M, 3G will give you more than adequate playing space, with some reasonable storage in your home directory. I like around 8-10G minimum in most situations, especially if your pc will be doing major logging, storage and the like. Steve > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message