On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
David Wright
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?
Traditionally we try to install as many rpms as possible. In 10.0 this resulted in approx. 16 GB the in root filesystem, only from SUSE 10.0 rpms. So using a maximum of 20 GB or perhaps better 30 GB for the calculation might be better. But I am not aware of side effects, i.e. I don't know the algorithm. E.g. when you have a Laptop and 30 GB free space, you usually do not want everything in /. But an additional filesystem for stuff that doesn't change with SUSE versions, e.g. MP3s, Videos, that do not belong into /home. -- Andreas Vetter