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Date:      Mon, 29 Sep 1997 09:46:47 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Studded" <Studded@dal.net>
Cc:        "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Staying -current with FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199709291546.JAA11719@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Sep 1997 23:20:56 PDT." <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com> 
References:  <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com>  

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In message <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com> "Studded" writes:
: 	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? :)

I found things really cramped when I had the 1.2G disk for stuff.  I
found things much less cramped on the 3.2G drive that I have now, but
I also supplement that with a 1.0G JAZ drive for the CVS tree.

With disk being as cheap as it is today, I'd get a couple of 2G-3G IDE
drives.

Warner



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