[Fwd: Re: unchecked 31 times]
My apologies, Greg:
I actually wanted to send this mail to the list, so with the private
mail I accidentally sent you, you'll probably have it now a second time.
Best Regards,
Wolfgang
-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>
To: Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net>
Subject: Re: unchecked 31 times
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:38:04 +0100
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 00:19, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 16:20, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> >
> > But just for the sake of argument, why do you say the root partition
> > should be 200MB?
>
> root should only be enough to boot with...
Currently on my system (I'm the only user of the machine) "du -hc
/<folder>/" gave me these space usages:
>
> /etc = 45MB (with GConf taking 30MB of that)
42M total
> /bin = 3.5MB
3.1M total
> /sbin = 3MB
4.6M total
> /lib = 35MB
58M total
> /dev = 128KB
40K total
> /root = 15MB or so
51M total
> /proc = null
2.8M total/ or: 773M (seems to change from time to time)
> /tmp = 50K or so (not a separate filesystem until multi-user/services)
56K total
All these values after about half a year since I installed the system
... currently with X, Gnome etc. ... and I hope I can use the machine
for the next few years .... :)
HTH ...
Best Regards,
Wolfgang
>
> / should equal the sum of them ~ 100MB. Adding for growth a bit...
> That is why I say 200MB.
>
> These should all be separate partitions/drive/mountpoints
> /usr
> /usr/local
> /var
> /home
> /tmp
> /boot (personal pref)
>
> That would keep your problems to a minimum. And keep your reboots to a
> minimum as well.
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