** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:12:43 -0600
> On Sunday 30 December 2007 02:50:36 am Stan Goodman wrote: > > > MANY thanks for this. I had no feel whatever (as you saw) for the future > > needs of partition sizes, and my numbers were just a guess -- but not a bad > > one, apparently, judging from yours. I could enlarge /home as you have > > done. > > Be aware that size of /home depends on what for computer is used. > > I don't have much of multimedia files, but I do have virtual drives (for > virtual machines in VirtualBox and QEMU) that take few GB each (currently 8) > so my /home is still too small, and right now I'm using extra 40 GB partition > that was initially meant to be archive. So satisfying total for my use case > would be some 60 to 70 GB. I think for my present use, the 20 - 30GB is more than adequate. But that wasn't what was troubling me; I had no feel at all for what might be a reasonable size for the OS itself, i.e. for the / partition. I now feel more confident. I will need to investigate the use of virtual drives, but I think making use of them is probably something for the future, if at all. > > > What is the logic of the separate /dev partition? > > It is not separate. > It is just udev subsystem entry in /etc/mtab. You can run: > cat /etc/mtab > to see that and few more. Here is output of mine /etc/mtab: > /dev/sda6 / reiserfs rw,acl,user_xattr 0 0 > proc /proc proc rw 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 > debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0 > udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 > /dev/sda7 /home ext3 rw 0 0 > securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0 > > I have no idea why command 'df' picked udev. > Maybe it uses some portion of /dev directory, so it really exists on hard > disk, while other mounts without slash in front of them, like proc, sysfs, > debugfs, securityfs exist only in RAM. > > To answer this without preceeding 'maybe' we would need some kernel developer > to appear in this thread :-) > > -- > Regards, > Rajko > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "This incarnation has been my most gruelling." -- The Dalai Lama -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]