On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:27, Lane Lester wrote: > > > > But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition > > below 1024 cyl. > > I've routinely made a 32MB /boot for years, but noticed that I never > came close to using that space, so I've recently started making them > 8MB. Of course, I don't recall ever having more than 3 kernels present > either.
Make sure you mount /var on its own partition right from the start, or bump up the inode count when you make the / partition (I don't have a clue as to what would be reasonable, but I do know it is /var/lib/dpkg/info that eats up all the inodes). I tried to install potato into a 20M / with /usr on another partition, I kept running out of space... df told me that only 9 (or so) meg of the / partition was being used, dumpe2fs told me I had run out of inodes. I had to make the / partition 22M before potato would install, but then I ran out of inodes trying to install all the .debs I had downloaded (they are sitting in the partition that will eventually hold /var and /home). - Bruce