Re: what's the proper size of the root directory
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:02:56AM +0000, Yuwen Dai wrote:
> I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. My question is
>
> what's the proper size of the '/' directory?
>
> Of cause, I exclude /usr, /var, /tmp from '/'. I worry about that if the
> root patition is too small, it won't be compatible with the future version
> of Debian.
> Like Redhat, 6.2 said 100M would be enough for root but 7.1 says at least
> 250M. I had to re-patition the hard disk...
On this system (unstable, with a fairly reasonable selection of stuff
installed) it comes to 31Mb. I think you'll be safe to assume that it
won't grow by a factor of three in the near future; you'd probably be
entitled to file a bug if it did.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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