Marcel Hilzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Am Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 13:09 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
>> David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Just a word of warning regarding the new default partition sizes
>> > suggested by YaST. I have a 10GB root partition on my laptop and just
>> > went to install IBM Rational Software Architect. The install files take
>> > up around 2.5GB of space and the installed program itself takes another
>> > 2GB (I eliminated some of the options I didn't need)
>>
>> We could change the parameter for the calculation, currently we use 10
>> GB as maximal size for root - but this is just one parameter to
>> change...
>>
>> So, what do others think?
>
> You can change the upper limit to 20 GB I think. New machines often have 
> harddisk with 250 or more GB. Also games like Doom or Quake need more than 2 
> GB! 

> And: shrinking a big root partition later is easier, than growing it :-)

Makes sense.

Bug #158608 - will be fixed for RC1,

Andreas
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