On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:09 +0100, 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?
Andreas
It's only because you're asking it, and i surely don't want to start an unholy war on the subject, but i was in the impression that it was good practice to keep root as small as possible (leaving some space to breath) /boot also as small as possible, RO, or not mounted at all /var should be big enough for any data for spool/mail/log /usr & /opt big enough for binaries (should not grow normally) /tmp whatever one needs as playground /home & /srv as much as possible So why should the root partition be so big anyway????? Hans -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org)