On December 31, 2002 10:06 am, Alvin Oga wrote: > i always want at least 6 partitions ( my quirks ) > ( or some silly set of similar sizes ) > - you dont need /boot in modern pcs that know how to get pass > the first 1024 cylinders ( 500MB ) problem > ( 500MB is plenty of room for your /bin /lib /etc /sbin /boot ) > > 64MB / > 128MB /tmp > 512MB /var > 2048MB /usr > 256MB swap > rest /opt ( aka /home )
I use a very similar scheme but in my experience some of those sizes are too small, particularly / ... here's the usage on my current desktop system: fraser@shieldaig:/lib$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 471M 258M 190M 58% / /dev/md3 1008M 41M 917M 5% /tmp /dev/md1 4.0G 3.3G 529M 87% /usr /dev/md2 2.0G 576M 1.4G 30% /var /dev/md0 7.9G 3.6G 4.0G 47% /home 258MB are used on my root partition, mostly because I like to keep a lot of kernels around (/boot and /lib/modules combined are 169MB), still not counting kernels my root filesystem is right around 100MB. My /usr includes about 500MB of stuff under /usr/src but still real Debian packages installed in /usr is getting pretty close to 3GB for me, in anticipation of growth I'd make /usr at least 5GB (if not 10GB), I remember having X up and running with 50MB of installed disk space, those days are gone ... growth in the number of apps and size of those apps is almost inevitable. My $0.02 CDN Fraser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]