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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!pacifier!rainrgnews0!not-for-mail From: bmk@everest.dtr.com (Brant Katkansky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is minimun size required for FreeBsd? Date: 8 Aug 1995 07:54:01 -0700 Organization: RGNet Lines: 32 Message-ID: <407tqa$4kb@everest.dtr.com> References: <3vsafv$4qn@i-2000.com> <3vt69q$mt0@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> <40545q$34a@everest.dtr.com> <407jps$q2k@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: dtr.rain.com In article <407jps$q2k@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@hsc.fr.net> wrote: >In article <40545q$34a@everest.dtr.com>, >Brant Katkansky <bmk@everest.dtr.com> wrote: >> My general rule of thumb is close to Ollivier's. 20-25MB for /, and >> 55-60MB for /usr. You would of course need to create an additional >> filesystem (or size /usr appropriately) for user space. You can get by > >/home (or /users YMMV) should be on its own slice. I should have prefaced that with 'On a minimal system'... If disk space is short, the extra wasted space cannot be afforded. > >> with a 16MB /, but I absolutely would NOT recommend it. This leaves >> very little space for expansion in /tmp and /var, not to mention that >> fact that it would make new kernel installation tricky. > >/var should be on its own slice IMO. A lot of things break when /var is >full. Or /tmp or that matter. I used to use the swap (via mfs) or /tmp but >it consumes too much swap space. You may want a big /tmp for some things >but in 1.1.5* I was using a 15 MB /tmp and never got any problem. Obsolutely... Again the phrase 'On a minimal system' applies here too. It's not always possible to create separate /var or /tmp filesystem. IMO, on a system being used for light-duty work by only one person, the advantage is debatable. -- bmk@dtr.com