Re: Error loading operating system

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:11:10 -0500, Celejar wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20101116151110.a73dd6fc.celejar@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:56:12 +0100
> Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:12:37 -0500, Celejar wrote in message 
> > <[🔎] 20101115211237.ad4d60f6.celejar@gmail.com>:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:08:42 +0100
> > > Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:20:02 -0400, Stefan wrote in message 
> > > > <jwvab2n5p8a.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.debian.user@gnu.org>:
> > > > 
> > > > > > sda1 /        10Gb
> > > > 
> > > > ..overkill.
> > > > 
> > > > > > sda2 /usr   10Gb
> > > > 
> > > > ..unless this is a single purpose server, 
> > > > you will want much more, e.g. 50G.
> > > 
> > > 50Gb for /usr?!  Why?!
> > 
> > ..I installed _everything_ until Lenny, and 
> > played around and reported mostly conflict 
> > bugs.  And, Sid provides a softer growth than 
> > the dist-upgrade disk usage shocks. ;o)
> > 
> > ..most people will want "comfy space" to play 
> > around in and learn, these days that's easily
> > 20GB, and for your next machine in say 5 years,
> > easily 50GB. 
> 
> This still seems very high.  My /usr currently uses 2GB, and while I
> admit I'm pretty parsimonious, I really don't see the point in 20.
> HDDs are large today, but my machine only has 60.

..maybe, Bill Gates once voiced similar concerns over 
excessive ram at 640kB. ;o) 

> > > > > > sda3 /var   10 Gb
> > > > 
> > > > ..for a server, you want much more, I use 
> > > > 22G for a lan web server.
> > > 
> > > Why?  What's in your var?
> > 
> > .. mount points for /var/www and var/log 
> > (22GB and 2.2GB), 1.6GB in var/tmp, 
> > 1.3GB in /var/lib, 179MB in /var/cache and 
> > 120MB in /var/mail, to name the big ones.
> 
> Yes, I understand a few GB for /var/log, but many webservers aren't
> serving anything close to 20 GB of content.

..maybe, I do it for my own use though. ;o)
 
> Celejar


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