** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:33:59 -0600
> On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:03:07 pm Stan Goodman wrote: > > > Tomorrow or the next day I'll do the necessarily retrieval of data that was > > not backed up. Then I'll install v10.3 over the failed upgrade, but with > > some changes in partitioning. I will alloacate 20GB for /root and the same > > amount for /home, so that user apps and data will not be affected by any > > future upgrading disaster. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda6 19542436 4760824 14781612 25% / > udev 973088 112 972976 1% /dev > /dev/sda7 28842748 20113968 7263656 74% /home > > This is mine / and /home. > System root partition has already many development (big) packages on it, but > as you can see it is used lesser than 5 GB. It would be good to have only 10 > GB there, as I'm going to do soon after rearranging hard disks. > > I would leave service partition as is, 10 GB should be enough, just create > large /home on ex 10.2 partition. If you want service partition (recommended) > than you can create one 5 GB. Basic system that can be used as rescue will be > with KDE on it some 2 GB. MANY thanks for this. I had no feel whatever (as you saw) for the future needs of partition sizes, and my numbers were just a guess -- but not a bad one, apparently, judging from yours. I could enlarge /home as you have done. What is the logic of the separate /dev partition? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
