Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:47:17 -0800 (PST) From: Earl Larsen <eclarsen2@yahoo.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with Allocating Disk Space Message-ID: <20050129044717.27757.qmail@web52804.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200501252159.j0PLxji29684@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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I tried to put everything exept for the swap. Under the root partition, but the system said "unable to create partition. Too big?" I am using FreeBSD 5.3. Do I need to use FreeBSD 4.11 or older? --- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> 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!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
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