On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Tom Berger wrote:
> > Though I can see your point, using more partitions has an advantage in the case
> > of drive corruption.
> > Usually / should be very small to minimize this danger by reducing the number of
> > accesses to it. If your partition becomes corrupted somewhere in /usr you're
> > lost. With a distinct root partition you still have a chance to save yourself
> > and since there is a tool like Partition Magic (and soon our own DiskDrake), I'd
> > still tend to suggest using multiple partitions.
> >
> > My table:
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda3 76M 24M 48M 33% /
> > /dev/hda8 486M 149M 311M 32% /home
> > /dev/hda10 99M 2.8M 91M 3% /tmp
> > /dev/hda11 1.9G 1.0G 813M 57% /usr
> > /dev/hda9 152M 12M 132M 8% /var
>
> My question then becomes, why is my / partition so much more crowded
> than yours? Mine is 94mb full out of 100mb and that is after I
> cleared the old logs out of /var. You only have 24mb in / plus 12m in
> var for a total of 36 mb in both. Obviously I have a lot more of
> something in root than you do. I thought I was doing a pretty routine
> Mandrake 6.0 install. Does anyone have an idea about what would be
> taking up so much space? I don't use the root account for e-mail so
> that shouldn't be the problem.
Let's find out. Fire up the Midnight Commander (mc) in an xterm, switch to
/ and choose 'command - show directory sizes'.
I have (in byte size):
/bin 4702791
/boot 1474881
/dev 26569
/etc 1659421
/lib 12793K
/lost&found 0
/mnt 0
/proc 98317K
/root 0 #empty because I never use the root account after installation
/sbin 3811316
tom
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> Colorado Mountain College
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