Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:52:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Hummel <hummel@www.buffalostate.edu> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, Jim Power <jim-power@geocities.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970908143521.15301A-100000@www.buffalostate.edu> In-Reply-To: <3414323B.2C67412E@whistle.com>
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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Julian Elischer wrote: > Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Jim Power wrote: > > > > > 5.How many disk space is recommended for running a FULL version > > > FreeBSD and many application? > > > > And all the source code, so you can rebuilt the system and the kernel > > at will? And the ports collection, so you can easily get and install > > new programs? X Window System, Star Office, Emacs? Maybe 1.5 Gb. > > > > Annelise > > I have a machine on which I try > do regular "make world"s > and on which I have tried to build all the ports from scratch. > > I ran out of disk space.. > I have 3.5 GB on it.. > that's a LOT of software.. I only got about half way through the ports > > julian > This is probably more than what the average user would need to do. I'm quite happy with 3 Gigs for my single user system. I'm running 2.2-STABLE so I of course have full source, and I've installed all the basic ports. I'm using about 28% of total capacity on /usr so I have a comfortable buffer. I think Annelise's estimate is pretty close, but I don't feel comfortable without plenty of extra space to grow into. Of course, you could start off with about 1.5 and add more later.
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