On 3/30/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:16:30PM +0530, anirudh vij wrote: > > hi, > > i have a blfs system running on a 5 gig partition.around 2.5 gigs are used > > up. > > i am installing some packages that will take up about 1.7 gigs of > > additional space. > > so i wanted to add a new 12 gig partition to the system.this 12 gig > > partition is currently mounted as /home under ubuntu. > > how should i do this? > > if it can be done ,can i put the /home of blfs on it? > > no valuable data exists on the 12 gig partition currently. > Apart from what has already been said, consider where space is > currently being used. If it's in /var/log, rotate the logs > regularly. If it's in /home, it's easy enough to move that to a > different partition (and usually beneficial - you can then upgrade > the system to yet another '/' partition without losing the data). > > What concerns me is packages that will take 1.7 GB - not > impossible, but the biggest gnome package I have is gnumeric (50.5MB > net space for 64-bit) and even the big kde packages are well under > 100MB net - I keep /home (and /boot for x86 and x86_64) separately, > and everything else fits in to 4GB partitions. > > ĸen
Yeah, packages are not that big, unless you're talking about games (or dedicated gameservers). I installed a hell lot of packages(Guess around 500), including KDE/QT/X. Total disk space used: about 2GB I also keep the sources + build which take 10GB of space. So if you don't save your sources+build dirs, you don't really need more space... Also you could strip out libraries and programs. See the LFS book for more info about stripping. Tijnema > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
