** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <rmatov101@charter.net> on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:33:59 -0600
On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:03:07 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
Tomorrow or the next day I'll do the necessarily retrieval of data that was not backed up. Then I'll install v10.3 over the failed upgrade, but with some changes in partitioning. I will alloacate 20GB for /root and the same amount for /home, so that user apps and data will not be affected by any future upgrading disaster.
rajko@linux:~> df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 19542436 4760824 14781612 25% / udev 973088 112 972976 1% /dev /dev/sda7 28842748 20113968 7263656 74% /home
This is mine / and /home. System root partition has already many development (big) packages on it, but as you can see it is used lesser than 5 GB. It would be good to have only 10 GB there, as I'm going to do soon after rearranging hard disks.
I would leave service partition as is, 10 GB should be enough, just create large /home on ex 10.2 partition. If you want service partition (recommended) than you can create one 5 GB. Basic system that can be used as rescue will be with KDE on it some 2 GB.
MANY thanks for this. I had no feel whatever (as you saw) for the future needs of partition sizes, and my numbers were just a guess -- but not a bad one, apparently, judging from yours. I could enlarge /home as you have done. What is the logic of the separate /dev partition? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org