From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 14:56:07 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 9635116A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:56:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37EFA43D4C for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:56:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i5LEu2S07515; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:56:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200406211456.i5LEu2S07515@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl (Alex de Kruijff) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:56:00 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20040620204524.GA907@alex.lan> from "Alex de Kruijff" at Jun 20, 2004 10:45:24 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:56:07 -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. We ain't talking a commercial grade server operation here. With this small a disk, the more space you dead-end by consigning it to a file system that isn't getting used the more you limit what you can do -- in this case. I would not do this if I had lots of disk, but... Actually, some of the heavy hitters out there say they have been leaning toward all / disk partitioning + swap, of course. ////jerry > > -- > Alex > > Articles based on solutions that I use: > http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ >