Hi Petter, I have actually used the multi partman recipe. My hard drive is 160G in size. The space allocated to /usr was more than enough under Lenny. I used to install both Gnome and KDE and lot more additional packages. But now I have only Gnome with a very small number of additional packages and the partition is running low on disk space. I think at least 6G should have been allocated to /usr.
Installing Lenny with the laptop task selected consisted only of 815 or so packages whereas now more 1100 packages were installed for a Squeeze laptop install with more new packages installed on system upgrades. By the way, this was fortunately my first time to use LVM when partitioning. ;) Nima On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>wrote: > > [Nima Azarbayjany] > > I faced a problem in using Debian Squeeze recently which you should be > > aware of it by now but I'm writing you anyway to make sure it gets > > resolved sooner (if it is not yet). > > Very good. > > > The problem is that using the installer's default partitioning > > scheme nearly 5Gb is allocated to the /usr partition which now seems > > to be too small for a normal Debian system. I have a fresh install > > of Squeeze on my laptop with only a small number of additional > > packages installed. The version of the installer I have used is I > > think not the newest one which also installs recommended packages. > > I suspect you were using the "multi" partman recipe, which specify the > size of /usr/ should be between 500 and 5000 MB, depending on the size > of the hard drive. > > > Nevertheless, I have installed all updates and there is currently > > around 800Mb free space left on the partition. Few days ago I tried > > installing KDevelop (the first KDE software to get installed) and > > its installation went smoothly except that I was prompted with a > > message that there is too low disk space left on /usr although there > > was still 200Mb or so free space on it. The message kept popping up > > regularly. I have now removed KDevelop and all KDE packages upon > > which it depends but this sure is problem which has to be taken care > > of given the larger number of packages installed by default and the > > natural growth of package and distribution sizes. > > For your hard drive, how much space do you believe should have been > used on /usr/? How big is the hard drive? > > > If someone lets me know whether this issue has been resolved and > > what is the default partitioning scheme of the Debian Installer or > > where to fetch this information it can be of great help. Thanks for > > your attention. > > Personally, I always use LVM, which allow me to resize partitions > after installation. It might be a good idea for you too. :) > > Happy hacking, > -- > Petter Reinholdtsen >
