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Date:      Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:50:36 +0200
From:      jonas <jonas.de.buhr@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20050926205036.17075c0d@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20050926054805.GA34711@flame.pc>
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> > I suppose one GigaByte should be enough for the base system of 5.4,
> > isn't it?
> 
> Definitely.  The full base system (as I mentioned above) takes about
> 170 MB of disk space on i386 installations.

hi!

i would just like to add that it's a good idea to put rapidly changing
filesystems/directories (/var/log, /tmp and so on) on memory-
filesystems because usbdrives don't survive as many writeoperations
as HDs do.

cya,
jonas



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