On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:02:56AM +0000, Yuwen Dai wrote: > I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. My question is > > what's the proper size of the '/' directory? > > Of cause, I exclude /usr, /var, /tmp from '/'. I worry about that if the > root patition is too small, it won't be compatible with the future version > of Debian. > Like Redhat, 6.2 said 100M would be enough for root but 7.1 says at least > 250M. I had to re-patition the hard disk...
On this system (unstable, with a fairly reasonable selection of stuff installed) it comes to 31Mb. I think you'll be safe to assume that it won't grow by a factor of three in the near future; you'd probably be entitled to file a bug if it did. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
