David Wright wrote: > Just a word of warning regarding the new default partition sizes suggested by > YaST. I have a 10GB root partition on my laptop and just went to install IBM > Rational Software Architect. The install files take up around 2.5GB of space > and the installed program itself takes another 2GB (I eliminated some of the > options I didn't need) > > Let's assume users have got a DVD burning device. Then the default setup of a SUSE 10.1 installation puts intermediate burning files into /tmp. Which is normally a directory under /. So just for this very purpose we almost 10GB free space. Otherwise users will just fail when duplicating a double layer DVD. And there is no checking by the burning program if /tmp has got enough space and even if so, the burning program would not even disclose where and how to change its temporary directory. Therefore a "valid" configuration for a full desktop setup needs either a separate 10GB "/tmp "partition or at least a 16GB "/" partition. Anything else would get an ordinary user in trouble as soon as DVD burning comes into place.
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