Hi, I will tell you how I create my partitions and thats ok for me:
My main partition (hda) has about 3 GB, and then in the installation I
created:
/ (500 MB) (here is important to give space for /temp )
/usr (2 GB)
/swap (128 MB) (depending of your RAM memory)
/local (370 MB) (personal files of users)
I read that all the soft you will install should be in /usr/local
You can change the size of any partition with "Partition Magic"
without reinstalling all!!!!! (I could do it ) If you can't shout me.
good luck
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Subject: [newbie] /, /usr, and /opt?
> Are there any figures available on how much space is taken up in every
> file system in the default installation? What I mean by that is, are there
> any numbers for how big the /, the /usr, the /etc, the /opt, the /var etc.
> partitions absolutely have to be in order to accomodate a full installation,
> including everything?
>
> Given the advice I have received this far, I am thinking that perhaps I
> should make a 1 Gb partition for /, another 1 Gb partition for /opt, and a
> third 1 Gb partition for /usr. Is this a good idea?
>
> Another alternative is of course to make separate /etc, /var, /opt,
> /usr, /, and so on, for every file system? I'd feel pretty silly if I had
> made one partition too small and eventually had to reformat and reinstall
> the entire system, just because one of the partitions turned out to be too
> small. That is why I want to do this right from the beginning. Which of
> the alternatives is best?
>
> Some of the applications I plan to install I guess will end up in /usr.
> I thought this was where all third-party software was installed, but
> apparently some will end up in /opt? Is this true? In that case perhaps I
> should only make a separate /opt, instead of a separate /usr?
>
> I am grateful for all help.
>
> Ian
>
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