I usually partition myself, usinb the 'something else' option on the gui
installer, and have plenty of space. On this laptop, I made a 32-gb root
file system, a 3 gb swap space, and the rest for '/home/ it's plenty.
Maybe you could have the same problem that I had
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/error-during-installation-gnu-icecat
I've solved it avoiding the use of the automatic partition tool, beside I've
chosen the manual partitioning of the hard drive and this path solved the
issue, try it ;)
20GB is a good sized root. It would seem when installing however, all of the
files /home /tmp etc are all put on this 20GB partition.
That means when saving files, it saves it to the root partition. As far as I
can tell the rest of the partitions are not accessed at all by my computer.
With all the applications I need installed, my root is filled with 3.8 gb of
data. 10 gb root is more than enough in most cases. Sure, if you have enough
space on the hard drive you can make it 20, 30, 50 or whatever.
I think 20 GB should be a pretty decent sized root. Please show the output
ofdf -h
I believe the default setting is to preserve all downloaded packages in the
APT cache, you might want to get rid of those. Ditto, old kernels.
And if you require even more space, do the partitioning
