> > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:41:53PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10 on an older computer with a 852 MB hard > > > disk. > > > According to the handbook, 250 MB should suffice for text mode only. > > > However, both the "User" and (retried) "Minimal" distributions left me > > > with no space in /usr > > > I used the default partitioning (entire disk) and said "No" to the ports > > > and linux compatibility prompts. > > > > > > Assuming that the defaults are optimized for larger disks, how would I > > > best divide the available space? > > > > With that little disk space, I would be inclined to make it all > > just one root (/) partition - with a bit of swap. You might not > > even be able to have a swap as big as memory with no more disk than > > that, but try for a swap of memory size or at least 100 MB or so > > and the rest in /. > > > > I think FreeBSD has grown since they made those claims of 250 MB > > being enough for a minimum. You might be able to cram it in, > > but would have little room for doing anything. > > That is realy a bad idee. > > / is supposted to be small to limit the change that something > irriversible happens to it during a crash > /tmp can be mounted so that it gets a real power boost > > There are many other reason why not to do this. I can't think of them > this quickly.
We ain't talking a commercial grade server operation here. With this small a disk, the more space you dead-end by consigning it to a file system that isn't getting used the more you limit what you can do -- in this case. I would not do this if I had lots of disk, but... Actually, some of the heavy hitters out there say they have been leaning toward all / disk partitioning + swap, of course. ////jerry > > -- > Alex > > Articles based on solutions that I use: > http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
