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Date:      Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:56:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Earl Larsen <eclarsen2@yahoo.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with Allocating Disk Space
Message-ID:  <20050201195639.52784.qmail@web52807.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200501290530.j0T5UNE18570@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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I put 134 Mb for the swap, and the rest for the /. I
just look at what is left over, and put it all in the
/. Should I put less then what it shows? How much
less?


--- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
wrote:

> > 
> > I tried to put everything exept for the swap.
> Under
> > the root partition, but the system said "unable to
> > create partition. Too big?" I am using FreeBSD
> 5.3. Do
> > I need to use FreeBSD 4.11 or older?
> 
> No.  You calculated the sizes wrong, probably.  Your
> root plus 
> swap added up to more disk than was available in the
> slice you
> were creating them.
> 
> ////jerry
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > I was wondering if anyone could help me
> allocating
> > > a
> > > > 1.5 gig hard drive. I worked on it a little
> bite,
> > > and
> > > > came up with 150MB for /, 134MB for swap,
> 150MB
> > > for
> > > > /var, 175MB for /tmp, and the rest goes to
> /usr. 
> > > 
> > > Well, if it works it is good.
> > > Nowdays, 1.5 GB is pretty tight for anything but
> a
> > > slimmed down system.
> > > 
> > > >  I
> > > > would like to optamize this a little more. I
> want
> > > to
> > > > run KDE on the hard drive. Any help with this
> > > would
> > > > greatly be appreceated, because I am
> installing it
> > > on
> > > > an old Thinkpad (380D (( PI 175 Mghz)).
> > > 
> > > This might be a situation where putting
> everything
> > > but swap in
> > > the root partition would be a reasonable idea.  
>  It
> > > would be 
> > > difficult to know in advance where stuff will
> fit. 
> > > KDE is kind
> > > of big and you will need X for it too.
> > > 
> > > ////jerry
> > > 
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