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Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.



Hello

Jonathan Schmitt (<other.list@detla.de>) wrote:

> Hallo,
> in addition to the other poster,
> 
>>/             100M
>>/swap         512M
>>/boot         15M
>>/usr          5G
>>/usr/local    5G
>>/var          7G
>>/tmp          100M
>>/home         The remaining part of a 30G drive, approx 12G
> 
> You won't find that setup to be a good idea. Woody doesn't put great
> amounts of data to /usr/local (I just checked, my directory is 106
> byte), so the 5G there are a bit of wasted there.

I think Debian doesn't place anything there, except for creating some
directories during install. However, there are cases in which you need
that space in /usr/local, e.g. if you want to install some games like
UT or Quake 3 or install self-compiled software. I would however think
about making /tmp bigger.

> If You don't have any important reason, I don't see, why You would 
> like to split Your harddrive anyway (of course, besides swap). 

Well, the advantages and disadvantages have been discussed here
repeatedly. Just take a look at the archive.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen 

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