Re: size of partitions worries me

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:41:58PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote:
>   
> > Hi folks,
> > I've managed to install debian etch on my amd64 system
> > which I dualboot with FreeBSD. I installed it on a
> > 57GB partition.
> >
> > I've chosen to let the installer recommend the
> > partitions and their sizes and the result is:
> >
> > Bestandssysteem       Grtte Gebr Besch Geb%
> > Aangekoppeld op
> > /dev/sda2             259M  120M  126M  49% /
> > tmpfs                 1,5G     0  1,5G   0%
> > /lib/init/rw
> > udev                   10M  100K   10M   1% /dev
> > tmpfs                 1,5G     0  1,5G   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/sda9              41G  223M   39G   1% /home
> > /dev/sda8             373M   11M  343M   3% /tmp
> > /dev/sda5             4,6G  1,7G  2,7G  39% /usr
> > /dev/sda6             2,8G  836M  1,8G  32% /var
> >
> > Epecially the size of the / partition worries me
> > because I had the experience that in another os
> > (ubuntu breezer) it filled up quickly.
> >     
>
> I was going to say that I don't see a problem here, but then I
> reviewed my partitions. I'm using 300M on my / partition. I have /tmp,
> /usr, /var and /home all seperate as above. My system has been running
> this configuration for a couple years now with no problem. So, I think
> its reasonable that your / partition might be a little bit small, but
> I think its close, and if you're careful you should be okay. Note that
> I have lots of installed stuff that I dont really use...
>
>
>   
> > So what do you recommend? Should I reinstal and change
> > the partition sizes? I will use it as a desktop pc, so
> > I already installed KDE and am planning to install
> > some bitorrent or other p2p program. I will watch
> > movies on it and burn cd's.
> >     
>
> If you don't plan on installing a bunch more, you'll be okay. Note
> that most installation puts stuff in /usr not /. 
>
> ymmv
>
> A
>   
As you can see from the following:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2               279999     82811    182730  32% /
tmpfs                   631764         0    631764   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                     10240        64     10176   1% /dev
tmpfs                   631764         4    631760   1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg1-tmp     253871     12309    228455   6% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg1-var    2064208    721028   1238324  37% /var
/dev/mapper/vg1-usr    8256952   2878948   4958576  37% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg1-home   3096336   2694588    244464  92% /home

I am only using about 81M out of almost 274M on my root partition.  This 
is an Etch system that I created using debootstrap from my Sarge system 
back in August.  I made sure that everything that I actually used in 
Sarge got installed in Etch.  Very little actually goes in the / 
partition when you have seperate partions for /tmp, /var, /usr and /home 
as I do and the OP says he has, as well.  I don't see a problem here.

--
Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com