Re: [expert] Filled Up Root Partition, HELP!

[Tom Gwilt]

The problem with a 100M root partition is found in one of two places:

/usr
/var

The advice of one big partition and one small partition is, IMHO, pretty
wise.

My own personal preferences are (based on a 5 G Hard Drive)

/      -----> 70MB
/usr   -----> 1024MB (This gives me a lot of room for /usr/local,
/usr/contrib, etc)
/var   -----> 50MB (This is merely a home machine, so this is probably
overkill)
/opt   -----> 2048MB (Many installers look for this partition. I also
use it for downloads)
/home  -----> 2048 MB
swap   -----> Religious wars have erupted from this one. I have 256MB of
RAM and use about a 32 MB swap.

YMMV,


T.