On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Michael Merten wrote: > I wouldn't worry about wasting a bit of space on the / partition... it's > probably the most difficult to fix when you run out of space, so go ahead > and give it 300-400M. Mine is 500M and runs about 24% used (/home > included).
But i'm not going to put /home in there. There's really not a lot that needs to go in /. Only the things required for boot and fixing problems, everything else goes in /usr. > I'd probably split that 1G into 2 partitions... 500M is enough for most > users for /var... you can always use an extra 500M partition at some > later date, if a partition runs low on space, or you decide to add a > /pub or something. hmmm... i'll have to think on this one. > The 2G for /usr sounds about right... I've got 1.8G at about 50% used... > that includes a partial mirror of potato in /usr/local/debian. I set > a symlink to it from /var/cache/apt/archives so everything I download > through dselect gets saved there. I've got 1.6G in /usr right now, which includes about .5G of sources (kernel, wine, x11amp, and some smaller stuff) > To sum it up... it looks like you've got it pretty well figured out, > although I'd DEFINITELY allow more for the / partition. Better safe > than sorry ;) 300M would be overkill, though. What would use that much space in there? Remember, /home, /var, /tmp, /usr would all be on other partitions.
