From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 17:44:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uruguay.pathwaynet.com (uruguay.pathwaynet.com [216.46.203.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1CF537B405 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:44:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from joshb (helo=localhost) by uruguay.pathwaynet.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16O7nB-0000VY-00; Tue, 08 Jan 2002 20:44:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:44:36 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Blanchard To: Troy Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to install on 540MB HD In-Reply-To: <3C3B9668.682F02FC@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-PATHWAY: SMTP FROM URUGUAY 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, 8 Jan 2002, 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > My suggestion would be to make a /var of about 50MB and then a / with the remaining 490MB. This will prevent some log file or the like from growing out of control and taking up all available space, but still allow maximum use of the remaining space. This may not be the best way, but it's what popped into my head first. -- Josh Blanchard GUIs are like diapers, everyone grows out of them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message