Re: new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-04 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
As an aside to this thread, is there a simple way to find the size of a given branch of the file-tree ? Or in other words, to find how big is /someting/other including all the subdirectories ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- If voting could really

Re: new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-04 Thread Jim Reimer
see if du /something/other gives you what you want. -jdr- Renaud OLGIATI wrote: As an aside to this thread, is there a simple way to find the size of a given branch of the file-tree ? Or in other words, to find how big is /someting/other including all the subdirectories ? TIA,

Re: new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-04 Thread Ray Olszewski
Try "du -sh /someting/other" At 05:31 PM 8/4/00 -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: As an aside to this thread, is there a simple way to find the size of a given branch of the file-tree ? Or in other words, to find how big is /someting/other including all the subdirectories ? --

Re: new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-04 Thread Richard Adams
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote about, Re: new drive - partitions sizes?: As an aside to this thread, is there a simple way to find the size of a given branch of the file-tree ? Or in other words, to find how big is /someting/other including all the subdirectories ? du -m

Re: new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-04 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Richard Adams wrote: Or in other words, to find how big is /someting/other including all the subdirectories ? du -m /something/other Finally got it: du -sx /xxx Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Always remember

new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-02 Thread Jim Reimer
Well, the dead drive's in the trash, the new one is in the machine. This one is 10 Gig, the smallest available at the local store. In the past, I've always just dumped everything into one partition, but this drive is big enough that I think it should be broken down a bit. Requesting guidance

Re: new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-02 Thread ksemat
of it this is to avoid the 1024 cylinder limit of lilo. On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jim Reimer wrote: Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:04:25 -0500 From: Jim Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new drive - partitions sizes? Well, the dead drive's in the trash, the new one is in the machine

Re: new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-02 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:04 AM 8/2/00 -0500, Jim Reimer wrote: Well, the dead drive's in the trash, the new one is in the machine. This one is 10 Gig, the smallest available at the local store. In the past, I've always just dumped everything into one partition, but this drive is big enough that I think it should

Re: new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
--- Jim Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the dead drive's in the trash, the new one is in the machine. This one is 10 Gig, the smallest available at the local store. In the past, I've always just dumped everything into one partition, but this drive is big enough that I think it

Re: new drive - partitions sizes?

2000-08-02 Thread Marc Mutz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since it is a one user system then you do not need a separate /home partition. however the way I usually do my partitions is that /usr is the biggest partition maybe about 6G then 1G for /var and I usually then make root an extended partition witha small 50MB /boot