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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is minimun size required for FreeBsd? Date: 8 Aug 1995 14:03:08 +0200 Organization: Support The Free UNIX Systems Lines: 26 Message-ID: <407jps$q2k@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <3vsafv$4qn@i-2000.com> <3vt69q$mt0@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> <40545q$34a@everest.dtr.com> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <40545q$34a@everest.dtr.com>, Brant Katkansky <bmk@everest.dtr.com> wrote: > My general rule of thumb is close to Ollivier's. 20-25MB for /, and > 55-60MB for /usr. You would of course need to create an additional > filesystem (or size /usr appropriately) for user space. You can get by /home (or /users YMMV) should be on its own slice. > with a 16MB /, but I absolutely would NOT recommend it. This leaves > very little space for expansion in /tmp and /var, not to mention that > fact that it would make new kernel installation tricky. /var should be on its own slice IMO. A lot of things break when /var is full. Or /tmp or that matter. I used to use the swap (via mfs) or /tmp but it consumes too much swap space. You may want a big /tmp for some things but in 1.1.5* I was using a 15 MB /tmp and never got any problem. > I believe he's referring to the live filesystem CD that ships with > 2.0.5. If that's the case, then I can comment a bit on it as I've used > it. You're right, I haven't thought about the second CD. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-