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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slice Size Help for a cool newbie Date: 31 Dec 1995 10:51:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4c5q08$6t0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4c4q5p$r8l@earth.superlink.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 danh@mars.superlink.net (Daniel J. Haurey) writes: > Can anyone help me out? > How big should I make my slices on the BSD Partition? (Note that the FreeBSD terminology is just the other way round: a partition is where you put a file system in, or what you are using for swap [traditional Unix partition], while the slice has been ``wrapped around'' the FreeBSD partition later in the game.) > I want to use 250mb total for BSD. > What goes in the / part > how much fir the /usr part > how much swap space. I have 16 MB of ram on this pentium75 Swap usage heavily depends on what you are going to do with your machine. The rule of thumb was to have twice as much swap as RAM, but i usually prefer more (i've got 125 MB swap, split across two disks, and 32 MB RAM). The suggested 20 MB might be enough for your / file system, but think about things like /var/spool that will fall under / if you don't have a separate /var file system. 250 MB ain't that much, so if everything is below the ficticious BIOS cylinder 1024, perhaps you would run best by only creating a / file system (and swap, of course). This gives you most flexibility for where your files will go (at the risk of damaging the one and only file system in case of some catastrophic failure). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)