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Bug#725642: installation-reports: Installer creates over-small root partition when automatically sizing separate partitions



* Rudy Godoy <rudy@stone-head.org> [2014-01-24 12:55]:
> Today, a 10GB partition for root is really small. Take in count that
> / will hold /var/lib and /var/log along with /usr. For a standard
> desktop install it takes almost 6GB of space, leaving 4GB for other
> software and software's own data files, such as database or logs.
> 
> I propose to use 20% of the disk size or a minumum of 50GB for the
> root partition.

I agree that 10 GB is too small.  50 GB sounds like a lot to me,
though.

Maybe 30-40 GB?  What do you think?

If there's a separate /var and /tmp, how much for those?

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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