Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:07:33 -0600 From: "Stephen D. Spencer" <gladiatr72@gmail.com> To: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best way to partition a small HD Message-ID: <887b876a0602030707p3c79141ax7218f8e8dd5d5214@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20030425075333.GA66256@sr.se> References: <20030425075333.GA66256@sr.se>
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I agree with the first reply that you should check out 6.0-R; however, with a 500M drive, I would go with your initial instincts to cut off a piece for swap and use the rest for a single filesystem. Unless you know the precise list of ports, where they go and how much space they take up, slicing up a drive that small will probably lead to out-of-space head-aches in the not-so-distant future. I would also suggest that you read the man page for newsyslog.conf. You'll probably want to decrease the number of syslog archives that are kept. Also, skip the ports and source install. Install your ports via the 'pkg_add -r' command line. Good luck! -Stephen Spencer Lawrence, KS On 4/25/03, Gunnar Flygt <gunnar.flygt@sr.se> wrote: > > I have an old Toshiba laptop with 24MB of RAM and 500MB HD. > > What is the best way of partitioning this disk for 4.7-RELEASE > or later? > > Should I use 450MB for / and the rest for swap or should I > bother splitting the partition with / /usr and /var and swap? > > -- > Gunnar Flygt > OPC Data > Sveriges Radio > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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