Re: FW: New to debian and overwhelmed.
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On Friday 12 March 2004 12:23 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> 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.
The LSB/FSH has deprecated /usr/local and now it is /opt. If you install
the LSB package one of the things it does is add the /opt dir. Either
way /usr/local-/opt needs to be as big as whatever software the local
admin, you?, adds to Debian.
> 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
>
> --
> Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
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Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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