Re: Partition sizes
everything looks reasonable to me except that / is definitely too small
and I generally allocate a lot more space to /tmp. Any reason in
particular you're keeping it so small? I also usually have a /boot
partition.
btw, my box is named blue also, damned biter! =)
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:55, David Balch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I need to change my hard drive partitioning on a testing
> install, and want to make sure I'm not missing something that
> would mean I didn't have to. Here's the situation...
>
> david@blue:~$ uname -a
> Linux blue 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> david@blue:~$ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 133M 92M 34M 74% /
> tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5 4.6G 2.3G 2.2G 52% /usr
> /dev/hda6 2.8G 2.0G 672M 75% /var
> /dev/hda7 15M 1.1M 13M 8% /tmp
> /dev/hda8 105G 2.5G 97G 3% /home
>
> I'm practically out of space on my root partition, which was allocated
> 133Mb by Debian Installer. (Although I'm not certain it wasn't picking
> up some older partitioning.) The space is used (approx) by:
>
> blue:/# du -hs /lib /etc /boot /sbin /bin
> 43M /lib
> 28M /etc
> 12M /boot
> 2.9M /sbin
> 2.8M /bin
>
> When attempting to install a second kernel, / runs out of space and the
> install fails.
>
> Does this look within a sensible range for a desktop with Gnome?
> i.e. my / partition is just too small, and I'll have to change it.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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