On Tuesday 20 February 2007 10:05, Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: > Perhaps it is possible to reduce / to ~128 mb? boot up and see
Right now, I'm running slackware, but if I remember correctly, the / partition contained about 40 to 60 Mb or data. > estimate that you need several mb free and estimate double of > /boot/kernel directory (if you install new kernel you get to keep the > old one, therefore estimate double that directory size). > Swap ... well for a successful crash dump you need as much as swap as > you have memory. I have 312Mb of usable RAM, so I made the swap around double that. > /var can be further reduced to perhaps 512mb or perhaps even less? I wasn't sure how much I'd need in /var, so I didn't want to undersize it too much. But, I don't spool large print jobs, and I set the logs to be trimmed regularly. > > Just a (cluttered) suggestion. > > The cool part about FreeBSD is what you can get away with, just by > symlinking (ln -s) a few folders here and there. After all, it's just > your desktop, right? Agreed. I'm just experimenting and learning at this point. Thanks for the suggestions, Sten. Joe _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
