Possible - Recommended 20 GB partition recommendation
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Feb 5 04:25:23 UTC 2005
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:19:42PM -0700, Gerald Thompson wrote:
> Actually I forgot about the /boot partition, needs to be within the 1024
> cylinder barrier. That was why I had to use partition magic.
This restriction doesn't apply to most computers made in the five or six
years. Can't hurt, of course.
> - /usr - 10 GB - usr is where all your software goes, don't bother making a
> separate /usr/local, you don't have enough space to mess around, keept all
> /usr stuff on the same partition
> - /home - at this point you should have 5.450 GB available for home, if you
> plan to install a lot of software you can probably take some from /home and
> give it to /usr, please remember though /home is where you store all your
> files, so don't make it too small.
Conversely, if you aren't going to install full GNOME+KDE+everythingavailable,
you could give yourself a lot more space for your own files by making /usr 4
or 5GB and /home bigger.
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