Am Samstag, 18. März 2006 16:06 schrieb houghi:
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:49:58PM +0100, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
> > Let's assume users have got a DVD burning device. Then the default setup
> > of a SUSE 10.1 installation puts intermediate burning files into /tmp.
>
> I have a DVD burner, 10GB space and no problems.
>
> > Which is normally a directory under /. So just for this very purpose we
> > almost 10GB free space. Otherwise users will just fail when duplicating
> > a double layer DVD.
>
> You are talking about a dual layer DVD burner. Most people do not have a
> dual layer burner.
> <snip>
Hmm, 3 of the 4 machines around me have dual-layer burners houghi ;-)
And most machine bought today with a dual-layer burner built in will tend to
have >150GB hard disks - laptops being an exception, the DL burnered laptop
has only 80GB of disk space...
> > Therefore a "valid" configuration for a full desktop setup needs either
> > a separate 10GB "/tmp "partition or at least a 16GB "/" partition.
> > Anything else would get an ordinary user in trouble as soon as DVD
> > burning comes into place.
>
> So then please suggest how it should be calculated in your eyes. Also
> think that it should be workable on smaller HD's. Not everybody has a
> 250GB HD.
>
> houghi
I think this is another topic for the (my?) Partitioning page...
Everybody is going to have different requirements, so I am with you in a
certain respect, continually growing the root partition for everybody because
some people might need more is not the real answer, but there are a lot of
applications that do need more space either on root or on one of the
directories that default to being on the root partition.
I'm logging into the Wiki as I write this, I'll start on writing a page for
this... (I did a search and didn't find an existing one)
I propose something like:
Installation Planning
Hardware
Partitioning
Software Package Selection
Network Configuration
...
Dave
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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
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