Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD
on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:36:41PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte (ferlatte@cryptio.net) wrote:
> lists1 said on Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:34:13PM -0400:
> > The box is 1.3 Ghz, 128 MB ram, single 13.9 GB hard disk. Planned use, is
> > light apache, light bind, light mail server (debian mailing list will be the
> > heaviest use). With X and some gui apps (see below).
> >
> > / 2000 MB
> > /boot 140 MB
> > /opt 2000 MB
> > swap 500 MB
> > /tmp 1000 MB
> > /usr 2000 MB
> > /var 2000 MB
> > /home 4300+ MB (balance)
> >
> > I read that deb packages take a lot of space under / ,
> > as opposed to rpm based distros that stick packages in opt and/or usr.
>
> Don't know where you got that idea. My boxes have 1GB in / and 2GB in /usr,
> and I'm using ~ 150MB in / and ~650MB in /usr. However, for a desktop box,
> having a seperate /usr can cause trouble (some packages are a little buggy and
> don't work when /usr is on a seperate partition... the only one I've
> encountered is discover, so it's a pretty small number).
This is a bug and should be reported as such.
Does Bug #178944 match your observations?
Peace.
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