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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!quanta.com!rsww From: rsww@quanta.com (Ross Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slice Size Help for a cool newbie Date: 31 Dec 1995 22:30:02 GMT Organization: Quanta Communications, Inc. Lines: 32 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4c72ta$rah@news.quanta.com> References: <4c4q5p$r8l@earth.superlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: quanta.quanta.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daniel J. Haurey (danh@mars.superlink.net) wrote: : Can anyone help me out? : How big should I make my slices on the BSD Partition? : I want to use 250mb total for BSD. : What goes in the / part : how much fir the /usr part : how much swap space. I have 16 MB of ram on this pentium75 : Any info would be apprecicated. : Please email to : danh@superlink.net Typically it should be 25-50MB for /, double the memory for swap (32MB), I'd put around 32MB for /var and the rest into /usr. With this small amount of space I would only install the bin, man, info, des, kernel sources, and X11 (maybe) and maybe games. You will have to manage space well and forget installing the full source distribution. Play around and find out what works best. Cheers, Ross Walker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | /\/ | Ross S. W. Walker (rsww@quanta.com) | \/\ | | | |\ | finger rsww@quanta.com for PGP key _____________________________ | |___|/ | | Quanta Communications, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------