Am Freitag, 17. März 2006 23:24 schrieb Hans Witvliet: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:09 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > 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? > > > > Andreas > > It's only because you're asking it, and i surely don't want to start an > unholy war on the subject, but i was in the impression that it was good > practice to keep root as small as possible (leaving some space to > breath) > /boot also as small as possible, RO, or not mounted at all > /var should be big enough for any data for spool/mail/log > /usr & /opt big enough for binaries (should not grow normally) > /tmp whatever one needs as playground > /home & /srv as much as possible > > So why should the root partition be so big anyway????? > > Hans
Because with SUSE 10.1 it suggests a partition scheme of root + /home, so just two partitions. I was just putting a warning in that people should think carefully about the size they need if following this default and wanting to install large applications like the Rational suite from IBM (just the one component without any the options was gobbling up over 2GB with another 2.5GB of temporary space for the compressed install images (IBM uses a Linux version of InstallShield by the look of it). With a fairly typical developer install, with Gnome and KDE loaded on my laptop, that crashed through the 10GB barrier that YaST suggests at install time. If I'd thought that I might need such a big app and had made allowances for it when setting up the machine it would have been OK, but I hadn't thought about it. This means however that tools like Requisite Pro and Websphere and the testing tools can't be added at all without re-jigging the partitions (I'd probably need 20-30GB of space for root or /opt to install the complete suite). Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
