perhaps you are confusing advice (often seen in this list) to have a
/boot partition which need only be very small -20mb i think but an
expert will have a better idea of ideal size,
a seperate /usr partion will keep / down, but unless on a seperate drive
total space used remains the same,
newbie mailing list archive is here (as pointed out to me in a different
post!):
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
bascule
Yuri K wrote:
>
> Could someone point me to The Ultimate Guide on HDD partitioning, please?
>
> My point: I come across notions to make root partition as small as possible,
> 80-120 Mb being as more than generous amount, etc.
> yet when I try to install I get messages that my root partition is too small
> for the packages i chose.
>
> I understand, that this topic is an eternal one, but I need to crarify it.
>
> TIA, Y
>
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