Re: OT: how much disk space for linux + windows
Hello Bob !
Thank you and also Hubert, Jan, Jonathan, Shawn for your answers !
I suppose this is a late reply on my request to debian-laptop from Oct 22 ?:
Bob Hilliard (Samstag, 7. Dezember 2002 13:52 ) :
> Shawn Lamson <madzimambo@yahoo.com> writes:
> > I just put in a new HD (80Gigs of which only 32G are used currently
> > b/c<br> my bios is old) and I put Win2k on the first 15 Gigs; then a Lin
> > Swap<br> drive of 512Megs; then my Debian install of Sarge on various
> > partitions<br>
Different people agreed that one would need not more than about 6 to max. 12
GB for running both Win2000 and Linux, depending on what will be installed,
and the smallest without too much user-data, i suppose.
Now I've just installed Debian Woody 3.0 with KDE and GNOME and Enlightment (
activated in 2 user-accounts ), and a lot of net-stuff, and Documentation
like info2www and dwww with apache. This uses about 1,5 GB by now.
/var is on a 500 MB extra-partition ( I will install wwwoffle soon, which may
fill up its cache in /var up to more than 200 MB ).
I used to install both OpenOffice and Staroffice in /opt which makes together
about 400 MB.
( Someday maybe stuff like GIS or a Java-RE, but I didn't consider yet.)
Pictures and docs will be stored on a exchange-partition, which i count to
neither linux nor win here.
So, in the end my configuration will need about 2 GB for the 'personal'
system-installation + 500 MB /var, + 500 MB /tmp, + 500 MB swap
which makes in summary about 3,5 GB for Linux, without any exchange-data.
For Win2000 i provided 3 GB, since i will use it rather extensivley.
The exchange-partition is 500 MB ( which maybe too less,
however it's possible to expand this or linux still into free space ).
For my purposes ( desktop and some networks ), minimal 7 GB for both OS and
some 'usual' desktop-data will be enough this time.*
Greeetings-
--
michl
*There is an additional ( laptop-specific ) hibernation-partition of 500 MB.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:34:18PM +0200, mw wrote:
> Hello List.
>
> I am trying to buy a used laptop on ebay next time, but there's one
> question i'm quite unsure yet.
> I would like to install both linux (debian ) and windows ( probably 2000 )
> because i want to use it for networking exercises with my good old desktop
> box here.
> I wonder how much disk space i will need.
> I remember someone recommended to give win2000 about 10 GB.
> But I would not need word or excell or such office stuff.
(...)
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