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Re: Partition



on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:45:04PM -0400, Scott Henson (shenson2@wvu.edu) wrote:

> I am about to install debian on a 4 gig hard drive.  I have looked
> around at How-tos and other documentation.  But I have been unable to
> find any solid sugestions on how to size the partitions.  All of them
> give one or two vague recomedations, and say that there are many wars
> about the proper way to do it.  

You obviously haven't been looking in the right place: 

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

;-)

This details two systems, one with 6 GB storage, the other with 20 GB,
which should give you an idea of variances with storage size.  I've also
just installed Debian on a dual-boot laptop, with about 4GB available:

    Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hda9                65846     30486     31960  49% /
    /dev/hda11               21929      1322     19475   7% /boot
    /dev/hda12               65846     13342     49104  22% /tmp
    /dev/hda13              758936    290104    430280  41% /var
    /dev/hda14             2016488   1216856    697196  64% /usr
    /dev/hda15              580364    114368    436516  21% /home

See the link above for more detail.  All systems are running Debian.

> I also remember reading something about having to size a partition
> larger because of apt's cache.  I would apreciate any advice on the
> debian size of partitions.  

Yes, in general, you want to be somewhat generous with /var.  The 750 MB
above is pretty sufficient and handles the apt cache well.  You can thin
it down to 500MB if you don't mind manually clearing the cache
periodically.

Peace.

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