on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:36:41PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > lists1 said on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:34:13PM -0400: > > The box is 1.3 Ghz, 128 MB ram, single 13.9 GB hard disk. Planned use, is > > light apache, light bind, light mail server (debian mailing list will be the > > heaviest use). With X and some gui apps (see below). > > > > / 2000 MB > > /boot 140 MB > > /opt 2000 MB > > swap 500 MB > > /tmp 1000 MB > > /usr 2000 MB > > /var 2000 MB > > /home 4300+ MB (balance) > > > > I read that deb packages take a lot of space under / , > > as opposed to rpm based distros that stick packages in opt and/or usr. > > Don't know where you got that idea. My boxes have 1GB in / and 2GB in /usr, > and I'm using ~ 150MB in / and ~650MB in /usr. However, for a desktop box, > having a seperate /usr can cause trouble (some packages are a little buggy and > don't work when /usr is on a seperate partition... the only one I've > encountered is discover, so it's a pretty small number).
This is a bug and should be reported as such. Does Bug #178944 match your observations? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? This sig for rent: a Signify v1.10 production from http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
