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

[Bug Hunter]

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Traci Collins wrote:

> Ken Archer wrote:
> > 
> > Now you see why I, after two years, I only use three partitions: swap, / and
> > /home.  Swap is obvious.  /home is where I store downloads and files I want to
> > keep.  Everything else goes in /.  When it's time to upgrade, I only format and
> > fresh reinstall in /.  It's clean.  It's efficient and I always have the right
> > size partitions :-)
> 
> That makes a certain amount of sense, so, what is the magic number in
> /? I was basicly trying do something similar by giving / it's own
> partition. I set it for 100mb because Redhat suggested 50-80mb and I
> wanted to be conservative. Obviously, the definition of a
> conservative is changing but I am curious as to how big it needs to
> be?
> 

  A full install of the latest RedHat (and Mandrake) takes about 1.13
gigabytes.

 A root partition of 1.5 gigabytes is reasonable now.

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