On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:00:11PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Anubhav Yadav: > > Okay, I installed debian now, a perfect install with LVM. > > Here is the output of df -H > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > rootfs 8.7G 330M 7.9G 5% / > > You usually can get away with a much smaller root filesystem if you use > a separate /usr. The good thing is that you won't run into trouble with > dozens of kernels installed (they take more than 100MB in /lib/modules > each).
There is little point in having a separate /usr on a Debian system. Both / and /usr are managed by dpkg, so splitting them gains you nothing. On other systems it might make more sense, but on a Linux system with dpkg or rpm, it's not something which I can recommend. I had a separate /usr for over decade until I thought about it long and hard and realised this. The content of /, and /usr (and /boot for most people) are a managed whole. /var is the only part which can be properly justified in splitting since it's writable, likewise for user data in /home or /srv. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
