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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news3.digex.net!digex.net!not-for-mail From: starfyr@access5.digex.net (J. A. Holmes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Newbie install question: Allocating drive space Date: 16 Nov 1995 08:21:50 -0500 Organization: Express Access, Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 31 Message-ID: <48fdte$1v1@access5.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: access5.digex.net 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. Any suggestions? -- ____________________________________________________________________ Jeffrey A. Holmes <mailto:starfyr@access.digex.net> <http://www.access.digex.net/~starfyr/index.html> 5000 years of civilization and a spit take still gets laughs.