From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 17:19: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A435637B422 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:18:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g091IeZ19741 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 02:18:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA21202 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 02:18:39 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 59447 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Jan 2002 01:18:38 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 02:18:38 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Troy Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to install on 540MB HD Message-ID: <20020109011838.GA59434@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Troy , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3C3B9668.682F02FC@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C3B9668.682F02FC@myrealbox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 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.)) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message