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Date: Sun 01-Nov-1989 05:36:39 From: Unknown Subject: How much available space on the 1.0 optical? On the 1.0 distribution disk, about how much space is available? I'm considering the purchase of an optical-only system, but I get the impression that there isn't enough room on the optical for much else to be stored. Also, any comments on what working with an optical-only system is like would be more than welcome. (I realize that the 40MB swapdrive will improve the situation considerably.) - John H. Osborn * University of Texas at Austin Comp. Sci. Dept. osborn@cs.utexas.edu * "Love your SysAdmin." >From: dubman@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jonathan Dubman)
Date: Sun 01-Nov-1989 15:15:14 From: Unknown Subject: Re: How much available space on the 1.0 optical? In article <7116@cs.utexas.edu> osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes: >On the 1.0 distribution disk, about how much space is available? >I'm considering the purchase of an optical-only system, but I get >the impression that there isn't enough room on the optical for >much else to be stored. > >Also, any comments on what working with an optical-only system is >like would be more than welcome. (I realize that the 40MB swapdrive >will improve the situation considerably.) On a virgin 1.0 disk there is 14,860 KB free (i.e., not much!). If you use the 40MB SCSI disk for swap space, you will be able to remove /private/vm/swapfile from your optical, freeing at least 16 megabytes. I haven't seen any documentation on the new 40MB configuration, so there may be other ways to save space. Additional space could be saved by removing stuff that you don't use or don't use often. Of course, if you want to add or install software (e.g., TeX), say goodbye to that space. It doesn't look like you can install all of the software and run it on an OD only system (even with the 40MB). The 40MB will undountedly speed things up, as will adding some more memory, but you will still run out of space on an OD system. The OD makes for great removable storage, but doesn't do too well as the primary storage or bootdisk. Tons o' disk storage is needed to run today's applications. We are no longer dealing with text on punched cards. We are dealing with LARGE amounts of multimedia data -- sounds require at least 8Kbytes/second, bitmap images can be HUGE, formatted text takes up much more space than straight ascii. What was considered a lot of storage yesterday is not enough today. The rate at which the size of the data that we manipulate is growing is easily beating out the [large] increases in storage availability. Then again, maybe I'm just a disk space junkie:-) >- >John H. Osborn * University of Texas at Austin Comp. Sci. Dept. >osborn@cs.utexas.edu * "Love your SysAdmin." How about just "Like your SysAdmin"? Mark >From: mahesh@ithiliencc.nd.edu (Mahesh Subramanya)
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