Hi,
I'm new to FreeBSD, but plan to make it the last OS my current laptop will ever see. It has an Intel 1.6ghz P4-M, 1gb DDR ram & a 32gb PATA SSD. It is a personal use machine. Which means I will be developing C programs with it and doing basic internet use, perhaps a little leisurely online movie watching too. It has a small freedos partition on it. And I will wait for FreeBSD 9.1 before installing.
I have 2 basic questions:
1.) Which file system would be recommended?
2.) What size swap partition (or slice I guess) would be recommended?
I've been trying to research this information on the forums, but am not really finding anything conclusive. I'm not going to assume *BSD would be the same for swap as a Windows or Linux machine and the FreeBSD file systems are foreign to me. So I figured I'd come outright and ask. It seems the SSD is where I'm finding inconsistencies as to which configuration is best.
Thanks
I'm new to FreeBSD, but plan to make it the last OS my current laptop will ever see. It has an Intel 1.6ghz P4-M, 1gb DDR ram & a 32gb PATA SSD. It is a personal use machine. Which means I will be developing C programs with it and doing basic internet use, perhaps a little leisurely online movie watching too. It has a small freedos partition on it. And I will wait for FreeBSD 9.1 before installing.
I have 2 basic questions:
1.) Which file system would be recommended?
2.) What size swap partition (or slice I guess) would be recommended?
I've been trying to research this information on the forums, but am not really finding anything conclusive. I'm not going to assume *BSD would be the same for swap as a Windows or Linux machine and the FreeBSD file systems are foreign to me. So I figured I'd come outright and ask. It seems the SSD is where I'm finding inconsistencies as to which configuration is best.
Thanks