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From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
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Subject: Re: HD Space requirements?
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* modF <modf@home.com> [20001220 08:08]: writing on the subject 'HD Space requirements?'
=>Greetings,
=>	I have been searching the site and the FAQ's for information on a 
=>"typical" installation.  My question is what is the recommended space 
=>requirement for BSD?  I have an OLD (P133) sitting here collecting 
=>dust,  all of the hardware is supported from the list.  But I can not find 
=>anything about a space requirement. I have a few drives sitting around, 1.2 
=>gig, 500 meg, and a few 2gig drives, so there is a bit of junk variety.

I am running quite a number of apps (not games) on a 2GB drive. I even
have the srcs on it, runs X Windows and here is the usage as it stands...

wash:/usr/home/wash$ df -h
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s2a    48M    30M    15M    66%    /
/dev/ad0s2f   1.7G   1.4G   175M    89%    /usr
/dev/ad0s2e    53M    10M    39M    20%    /var

My swap takes 240MB (but that is only because I have little space) instead
of 320M (Memory X2).
So you're pretty lucky you can run with maybe 4 disks and even have games
on ;-). Typically you do not need more than 50MB for / as you can see
mine and in my view you've more than you need.

HTH


=>
=>Thanks for the help!
=>--Mike
=>
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