Hi all, In the past I have run the personal edition, 8.0 and 8.1, but this time I am upgrading to the professional. Hopefully I will try to compile apps myself and be less dependent on rpms. I assume I'll need to install more source / development files. This will cause the amount of packages to increase greatly, so I've decided it might be a good idea to rethink my partitoning scheme. Here is what I have now, and the % used / free. I have two 40 gb hard drives... 37.2 actual hda 3 windows partitions(me,xp,shared)4.9G,19.5G,2.5G swap 745.1 MB boot 15 MB var - 3GB - 10.4% full /var/cache/apt - 5GB - 63.6 % full (3.3 Gb used) Free Space 1.4 GB hdb /home - 5GB - 8 % (376 MB used) / - 7.5 GB - 1.8 % (200 MB used) /usr - 8 GB - 39.2 % (3.1GB used) /opt - 7.5 GB - 12.6 % (1 GB used) /stuff - 2.5 GB - 35.3 % (900 MB used) /extra - 4 GB - 0.8 % free space 2.4 GB As you can see from these numbers I was well off in my estimates. /var can be shrunk because I made room for /var/cache/apt. Any ideas on the size for /var?(1 GB?or 2 GB) Everything will probably be formatted on this disk(hda) and reinstalled. But the windows portion will remain the same size. On hdb, /home is far too large. Is 2.5 or 3 GB the right size? Or will I need the room to compile sources? Most of my apps go into /usr/local so I guess /usr should grow a little. / is even worse. is 2.5 - 3 Gb acceptable? What would get stored in /bin, /dev, /etc , /lib , /mnt , /proc , /root, /sbin, /srv that isn't there in the personal edition? I'll probably format this drive as well so I'm open to suggestions. Thanks for any help / info. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.1