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Re: what's the proper size of the root directory



on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:02:56AM +0000, Yuwen Dai (daiyuwen@hotmail.com) wrote:
> Hi, All
> 
> 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...

There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system partitioning you may find
useful, at:

    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html

Thank you.

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