On Sunday 27 April 2003 21:34, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I screwed up my upgrade on my 8.0 system going to 8.2 and had to redo the whole thing last night. I didn't have a /home directory and at the recommendation of everyone, I made one before installing.
Anyway, I made my /home directory 2GB in size. Is that too big....too small, or just fine?
That depends entirely on what you're doing with your machine. I have a lot of movies (> 1GB/movie) and music files so for me, 2GB isn't even 10% of what I need. On the other hand, if you have data storage on other machines, or other partitions, /home doesn't have to be very large. In that case, 2GB would be more than enough. If you're just dealing with documents, 2GB should also be plenty. If you're compiling a lot of software, 2GB is very likely too small in the long run. If this were on a school or certification test I'd send the test back with the note "Bad question, insufficient information" :)