On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 12:18:06PM -0500, Ahlsen-Girard, Edward F CTR USAF
AFSOC AFSOC/A6OK wrote:
> Nick Holland wrote:
> > On 08/06/10 18:38, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> > > How much space should i put for a separated partition, mounted on
> > > /usr/obj, is 4 GiB more or less ?
> >
> > 4GB is significantly bigger than any platform I've seen needs. 2GB
> > is sufficient for just about everything now (that's from memory, not
> > actually looking in the last week or two). However, odds are, you
> > have 4GB to spare, so go ahead, use it.
>
> IIRC, 2GB was not sufficient when I tried to build Java on i386.
2GB is not necessarily enough for monster ports like OpenOffice, but
/usr/obj is for building the system...
Joachim
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