Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 02:18:38 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Troy <tdrake@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to install on 540MB HD Message-ID: <20020109011838.GA59434@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <3C3B9668.682F02FC@myrealbox.com> References: <3C3B9668.682F02FC@myrealbox.com>
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:01:28PM -0600, Troy wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm helping a friend install 4.4-R on his old machine and need to know > what would be good sizes for the slices. I was thinking about a 35MB /, > 64MB swap, 5MB /var and the rest to /usr. Does this sound OK? Will the > "Standard" installation fit OK? The machine is a old Pentium with 16MB > of RAM. Any suggestions would be great, thanks. I would say a 64MB swap sounds fine, possibly a bit large but not overly so, but for teh rest I would use just a single partition for the rest. If you use just a single filesystem you won't run into the problem of running out of space on one filesystem while there are plenty of space on other filesystems. Since you have a quite small disk the advantages of having a single partition would IMO outweigh the disadvantages of doing so. (And if you insist on separate filesystems I would recommend 50MB for each of / and /var. The sizes you have proposed are too small (espeially for /var.)) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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