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... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux blue 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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. > > -- > I support http://www.waronwant.org/ and http://www.eff.org/ - Do you? > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > Want browsing without popups? Want email without spam? > -++{ http://www.mozilla.org/ }++- > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]