Re: minimum size for root partition
Quoting Chuck Stickelman (stick@richnet.net):
> Ben Frame wrote:
>
> > I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work
> > together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I
> > would like them to share diskspace and filesystems,
> > using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every
> > megabyte, I was wondering if anyone might be able to
> > suggest a minimum size for the root partition on each
> > machine. FYI - I plan to have /var be its own partition.
> > Thanks!
>
> Here's how I have the drives on *this* machine setup:
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 126879 46580 73747 39% /
> /dev/hda5 485955 409532 51326 89% /var
> /dev/hda6 486397 426306 34969 92% /home
> /dev/hdb4 1213449 1052262 98490 91% /usr
> /dev/hdb3 128822 67123 55047 55% /usr/local
> /dev/hdb1 1014623 542634 419575 56% /usr/local/POSA
> /dev/hda1 65344 40362 24982 62% /dos
>
> Since this is a fairly complete Debian installation, I'd recommend no less than 48MB
> for root.
> This system would be at 95% capacity in such a situation. Wouldn't want it to be
> much lower.
My, my. What takes up the room? Presumably directories like /bin, /sbin,
/dev are fairly complete in any installation, and perhaps even /lib.
So that leaves /etc (and /root and /tmp, but dpkg wouldn't touch them).
Here's one of mine, a modest installation of 275 packages. /yak is a
partition shared by /home, /var and /tmp. I've noticed that another
installation of mine which has 350 packages uses about the same
amount of / (but more /usr of course).
Mon Oct 19 23:34:24 BST 1998
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda2 31168 10716 18843 36% /
/dev/sda3 594315 286894 276723 51% /usr
/dev/sda4 1526118 899661 547585 62% /yak
/dev/hda1 166400 64388 102012 39% /dosc
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUsed Mounted on
/dev/sda2 8064 2010 6054 25% /
/dev/sda3 153600 27576 126024 18% /usr
/dev/sda4 395264 8933 386331 2% /yak
/dev/hda1 0 0 0 0% /dosc
Cheers,
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