Help with Allocating Disk Space

[Earl Larsen]

I tried to put everything exept for the swap. Under
the root partition, but the system said "unable to
create partition. Too big?" I am using FreeBSD 5.3. Do
I need to use FreeBSD 4.11 or older?



--- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu>
wrote:

> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone could help me allocating
> a
> > 1.5 gig hard drive. I worked on it a little bite,
> and
> > came up with 150MB for /, 134MB for swap, 150MB
> for
> > /var, 175MB for /tmp, and the rest goes to /usr. 
> 
> Well, if it works it is good.
> Nowdays, 1.5 GB is pretty tight for anything but a
> slimmed down system.
> 
> >  I
> > would like to optamize this a little more. I want
> to
> > run KDE on the hard drive. Any help with this
> would
> > greatly be appreceated, because I am installing it
> on
> > an old Thinkpad (380D (( PI 175 Mghz)).
> 
> This might be a situation where putting everything
> but swap in
> the root partition would be a reasonable idea.    It
> would be 
> difficult to know in advance where stuff will fit. 
> KDE is kind
> of big and you will need X for it too.
> 
> ////jerry
> 
> > 
> > =====
> > http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=14408439
> > 
> 


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http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=14408439


		
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