Roland:
If you can afford it, and if your laptop has a USB port, buy one of those
external harddisks. Plenty of room for music and movies... Also great for
backups!
Can't afford :-( I have many disks like that where I bought really cool
enclosures and the drives separately but currently am in a really bad
situation financially. In UK in my parents house I have round 3.2TB or
so with 1.7TB dedicated to music and movies. Out here though I only have
my 320GB drive on my laptop which has 9 OS's on it including VM's. 160GB
for Linux which I have Fedora 10 and Kubuntu on the other side I run
OpenSolaris and Belenix in different ZFS pools.
Laptop is cool 6GB memory too :-)
~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x34f7742e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 19453 156256191 bf Solaris
/dev/sda2 19454 23709 34186320 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 23710 25534 14659312+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 25535 38913 107466817+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 25535 38665 105474726 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 38666 38913 1992028+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 33G 11G 21G 34% /
tmpfs 2.9G 4.0K 2.9G 1% /lib/init/rw
varrun 2.9G 240K 2.9G 1% /var/run
varlock 2.9G 4.0K 2.9G 1% /var/lock
udev 2.9G 180K 2.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 2.9G 708K 2.9G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 2.9G 2.5M 2.9G 1%
/lib/modules/2.6.28-17-generic/volatile
/dev/sda5 100G 93G 1.2G 99% /home
/dev/sda3 14G 9.6G 3.6G 74% /mnt/tmp
I propose which is similar to what Frank has suggested:
/ ~500M
/tmp ~2GB
/var ~2GB
/usr ~2GB
/home the rest
I would make /usr greater. See below.
but then Jerry has already suggested:
partition mount point Size
a / 512 MegaBytes (1/2 GByte)
b swap 2048 MBytes (2 GBytes)
d /tmp 512 MBytes
e /usr 4096 MBytes
f /var 4096 MBytes
g /home 29 GB (eg all of the rest of the disk)
This could be ok I reckon as the 4GB partitions should be there as
everyone has suggested for me to use ports and build from source!
I'd make /usr bigger. 5-10 GiB, if you can spare it.
Err I will try 4GB because I need to dump round 10-15GB here clogging up
my disks. In fact I just partitioned the drive using FreeBSIE and I
think it's only a 30GB on this desktop which I can always look into
getting a new one in time. But slightly stuck for now!
Realize that not all software is available as packages because of
e.g. licensing restrictions. And some ports you can customize via so-called
"options". If you install from packages, you're stuck with the (default)
options used when building the packages.
The FreeBSD ports system is _so_ convenient. It's one of the great features of
FreeBSD, as is the user community.
I just the packages I mentioned before that's it! If I can do that it
will be really cool.....
The ee(1) editor is part of the base system. This is a _lot_ friendlier than vi!
Give it a try, you might not even need nano.
I will try it out thanks for that! :-)
In addition I do not think this machine has a DVD drive either although
I haven't fired up the Win build yet to transfer files but from what the
drive says on the front of 52x looks like it's CD only :-(
Good enough for installing. :-)
For this reason the discussed packages above will need to be downloaded
and installed my best guess is from source.
Installing from source is the most flexible method. How is your internet
connection?
Hahahah the biggest joke of 2k9 is my internet as it's 512kbps :-(
That's what happens when you move country to a developing one things
slow down to a halt. In UK I had 20Mbps aaaah I really miss it!
Meaning I will need extra
space in one of the filesystems but am unsure where the source gets
stored?? My best guess would be /usr?
In /usr/ports to be exact. The source code tarballs are also stored there,
under /usr/ports/distfiles. On my system, /usr/ports/distfiles is now 799
MiB (450 ports, remember!). The rest of /usr/ports is 543 MiB. Realize that
ports will be compiled under /usr/ports as well!
Ah ok I will look at this once my install progresses, I just hope that
4GB is enough for this! I really need to maximize space for /home where
all my stuff will be deposited to for the moment as I don't trust the
drive either as it really grinds like crazy but then it might be MS Win
doing that?
Good luck!
Roland
Many thanks I will need all the luck I can get! So need to get a nice
job and get myself a disk array from Sun or so linked to a proper 19"
rack server.
Not in my uncles house though :-P
Regards,
Kaya
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