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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: HD size for Coherent
Message-ID: <9104130927.36@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 91 14:45:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.135346.23166@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1991Apr11.173519.450@jrix.radig.de>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <1991Apr11.173519.450@jrix.radig.de> joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) writes:
>ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:

>>To all: I have been reading about people partioning their 20mg HDDs to run
>>Coherent, and I was thinking of doing the same thing. My question is: is this
>>realistic or do people think I should buy another 20mg HD just for Coherent?

>10 MB is enough when you only want the standard installation and some space
>for programs. I now use 80 MB for Coherent and think about buying a larger
>disk. It is just a problem if you like Coherent or not. 
>But 10 MB is too small when you really want to work with Coherent. Never-
>theless it is enough for installing but nothing more.

I have two 80 MB drives.  One is partitioned as 60 MB for / and /usr, and
20 MB as a /src area.  The other 80 MB drive is my news spool.

You can never have enough space.

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP