From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 20 20:45:56 2004 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 98EFE16A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:45:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp16.wxs.nl (smtp16.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C5843D49 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:45:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp16.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0HZM009IIKBPNM@smtp16.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:45:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5KKjOCT001648; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:45:24 +0200 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i5KKjOme001647; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:45:24 +0200 Content-return: prohibited Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:45:24 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200406201942.i5KJg8Z04353@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: Jerry McAllister Message-id: <20040620204524.GA907@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <200406202130310201.456FADCF@smtp.xs4all.nl> <200406201942.i5KJg8Z04353@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: eyesonly@xs4all.nl cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partition sizes for small harddisk 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: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:45:56 -0000 On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 MB hard > > disk. > > According to the handbook, 250 MB should suffice for text mode only. > > However, both the "User" and (retried) "Minimal" distributions left me > > with no space in /usr > > I used the default partitioning (entire disk) and said "No" to the ports > > and linux compatibility prompts. > > > > Assuming that the defaults are optimized for larger disks, how would I > > best divide the available space? > > With that little disk space, I would be inclined to make it all > just one root (/) partition - with a bit of swap. You might not > even be able to have a swap as big as memory with no more disk than > that, but try for a swap of memory size or at least 100 MB or so > and the rest in /. > > I think FreeBSD has grown since they made those claims of 250 MB > being enough for a minimum. You might be able to cram it in, > but would have little room for doing anything. That is realy a bad idee. / is supposted to be small to limit the change that something irriversible happens to it during a crash /tmp can be mounted so that it gets a real power boost There are many other reason why not to do this. I can't think of them this quickly. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/