On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 16:20, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 20:29 GMT, Greg Folkert penned: > >> >=20 > >>=20 Wouldn't this require rebooting first, or something, in order to > >>fsck the root partition? > > > > the root partition should be small anyway. 200MB or so. Those that > > have one single 200GB root partition are asking for trouble... > > That's not really the point. I think the point is that most of us try > to *avoid* reboots whenever possible ... > > 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... /etc = 45MB (with GConf taking 30MB of that) /bin = 3.5MB /sbin = 3MB /lib = 35MB /dev = 128KB /root = 15MB or so /proc = null /tmp = 50K or so (not a separate filesystem until multi-user/services) / 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. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry
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