[Nima Azarbayjany] > I faced a problem in using Debian Squeeze recently which you should be > aware of it by now but I'm writing you anyway to make sure it gets > resolved sooner (if it is not yet).
Very good. > The problem is that using the installer's default partitioning > scheme nearly 5Gb is allocated to the /usr partition which now seems > to be too small for a normal Debian system. I have a fresh install > of Squeeze on my laptop with only a small number of additional > packages installed. The version of the installer I have used is I > think not the newest one which also installs recommended packages. I suspect you were using the "multi" partman recipe, which specify the size of /usr/ should be between 500 and 5000 MB, depending on the size of the hard drive. > Nevertheless, I have installed all updates and there is currently > around 800Mb free space left on the partition. Few days ago I tried > installing KDevelop (the first KDE software to get installed) and > its installation went smoothly except that I was prompted with a > message that there is too low disk space left on /usr although there > was still 200Mb or so free space on it. The message kept popping up > regularly. I have now removed KDevelop and all KDE packages upon > which it depends but this sure is problem which has to be taken care > of given the larger number of packages installed by default and the > natural growth of package and distribution sizes. For your hard drive, how much space do you believe should have been used on /usr/? How big is the hard drive? > If someone lets me know whether this issue has been resolved and > what is the default partitioning scheme of the Debian Installer or > where to fetch this information it can be of great help. Thanks for > your attention. Personally, I always use LVM, which allow me to resize partitions after installation. It might be a good idea for you too. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flpr0mzffa....@login1.uio.no
