** 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
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