I don't build desktops so I don't know what people normally do for
swap size but it's good to remember at build time if you have small
drives. What I think about when sizing a server drive is memory, swap
and dumps. You didn't mention how much memory you have, but if it's
large, you may find yourself cramped in 20G due to swap allocation
and additionally might need to turn crashdumps off. If you take a
panic it can use a lot of space quickly with say 4GB of memory. Using
4GB as an example, a default swap configuration coupled with a single
panic dump saved could consume 12GB of your drive, with a more common
2GB memory, the same scenario would use 6GB, still a big chunk on a
20G drive. Though I've never done this, I suppose the swap could be
reduced from the norm if you are certain you can stay out of a swap
situation with your RAM. Dumps can be disabled if you are stable
(look at dumpdev and dumpdir in man rc.conf).
On May 27, 2006, at 7:04 AM, John Cruz wrote:
Pete C wrote:
. . . looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a
decent desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice,
firefox, gimp etc. . . .
. . . I have both a 20G and a 250G on hand, so I guess the
question really is is 20G enough ? ? ?
TIA
Pete C
Peter,
20g is what I would recommend that way you'll have room for the
install and room to play with. I'm running apache/samba/kde, the
ports system, no office stuff though. 6.1 latest release
Here's my df output to give you a better understanding
[EMAIL PROTECTED] df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail
Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 507630 72236 394784
15% /
devfs 1 1
0 100% /dev
/dev/ad0s1e 507630 434 466586
0% /tmp
/dev/ad0s1f 16182566 5682340 9205622
38% /usr
/dev/ad0s1d 1254862 1 48820 1005654
13% /var
~John
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