From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 19:40:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06B416A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:40:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web52810.mail.yahoo.com (web52810.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F2C543D46 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:40:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eclarsen2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 77593 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Jan 2005 19:40:55 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=M26kvz8OdFCZ+Sc/caVwg3Pc0AY4DQODFKjd+3AOcqtZQuLC8Z1Q7TL7IiZOd0yBxbYOs/6MD8STS3lV6QcgOKVz3ruWv2q07pr/UMZH0kY610L5ON5NJUEtBtJ5O9FA4K/+NdilImHkB8qLBOmBh+7NDifx+Qn7h4pY4nCnSiU= ; Message-ID: <20050126194055.77591.qmail@web52810.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.211.228.68] by web52810.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:40:55 PST Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:40:55 -0800 (PST) From: Earl Larsen To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <200501252159.j0PLxji29684@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with Allocating Disk Space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:40:56 -0000 If you can put everything in the root partition. Then why would you want to seperate the partitions? --- Jerry McAllister 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 > > > > > ===== > > http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=14408439 > > > ===== http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=14408439 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo