Re: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/25/03, Gunnar Flygt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 / /us

Re: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, February 03, 2006 09:07:33 -0600 "Stephen D. Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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. U

Re: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Stephen D. Spencer
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 u

RE: Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread fbsd_user
: Best way to partition a small HD 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

Best way to partition a small HD

2006-02-03 Thread Gunnar Flygt
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