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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie install question: Allocating drive space
Date: 17 Nov 1995 07:13:16 GMT
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In article <48fdte$1v1@access5.digex.net>, starfyr@access5.digex.net says...
>
>I'm completely new to un*x administration (a primary reason for wanting
>to try this out) so I have no frame of reference.
>
>When creating mountpoints, which partitions are required, and
>which are recomended?
>
>I originally attempted to create just one big drive (/) and was
>advised agaianst it by the install, so I followed those instructions
>and created a (/usr). The problem is that so far every attempt
>to install has basically met with fatal write errors "no space on x"
>where x is usually /usr (but at least once was /).
>
>The install option 'everything' claims it requires ~210M is this just wrong?
>
>I've got a 407M drive that I've divided as follows:
>
>/ 175M
>/usr 200M
>swap 32M (for 8M real memory)
>
>though I've tried a number of variations centered around those numbers.
Root ("/") should be smallish. About 25-40 megs in fine. This is basically
for reliability, since if something gets trashed it is mostly like not root,
and if root still exists you can still boot and have enough system bins to fix
things
Other than that everything looks fine. I suspect that you are overlooking
something in the install. Create one partition for FreeBSD, and make three
slices (during label step): one for root, one for swap, and one for /usr
Tom