From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 07:05:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA15377 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 07:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA15363 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 07:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0uO2vA-000QZ4C; Mon, 27 May 96 16:05 MET DST From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA24305; Mon, 27 May 1996 15:47:58 +0200 Message-Id: <199605271347.PAA24305@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: size of filesystem if u are gonna mount /usr ... To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 15:47:57 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Utz" at May 21, 96 09:30:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Utz writes: > > Anybody have any idea how much space i would need to do something > like this? Like what? A separate /usr file system? > This is exclusive of swap, of course. I plan on using 30 meg of swap > given my 6 megs of ram ( That way the mysterious octave/gnuplot mem > leak wont kill me quite so fast.. ). Your swap size will depend greatly on your applications. You seem to know what you need there, so I won't comment. > I want to put this on a on an 80M harddrive along with a ~10M /dos > partition on the same disk, i plan on mounting a D drive for MSWindows as > well. hmm 80 - 10 - 30 gives me 40M... can this be done? OK, it looks as if you don't want a separate /usr file system after all. For a disk of this size, this is a very good idea. Yes, you can put some kind of FreeBSD file system on 40 MB, if that's what your question is. Obviously you're not going to have bags of space over. You might consider using tunefs(8) to lower minfree from the default 8% to, say, 2%. See the man page for further confusing details and a famous quotation. Greg