From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 07:18:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14718 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:18:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14711 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:18:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA16823; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 10:17:47 -0500 To: Timothy J Luoma Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: realistic HD size needed ? References: <199811071802.NAA20703@ocalhost> From: Chris Shenton Date: 09 Nov 1998 10:17:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: Timothy J Luoma's message of Sat, 7 Nov 1998 13:02:29 -0500 Message-ID: <86g1bsx5d0.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Timothy J Luoma writes: > If I wanted to make a FreeBSD system where I could make my own kernels, make > world, etc > > How large of a HD would I need? > > This would be a Pentium system, if that matters. > > I've got a 1gig HD available. Would that be enough? I'd want it to be my > main system, so I'd want X, Netscape, emacs, etc on it. > > I just am curious how large I would want to be comfortable and not need to > worry about it (I'm considering getting a new HD anyway) You can get by with 1G, even with make worlds. I have about 32M for /, 32-64M for /var, maybe 64-128M for swap, and figure I need about 600M for /usr which includes /usr/ports and /usr/{src|obj}. The rest I allocate to /home where I have /usr/local, home dirs, etc. I usually make /usr/ports a link to /usr/local/ports or something, and /us/rports/distfiles to /usr/local/src because the dists can get large. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message