My apologies, Greg: I actually wanted to send this mail to the list, so with the private mail I accidentally sent you, you'll probably have it now a second time.
Best Regards, Wolfgang -----Forwarded Message----- From: Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: unchecked 31 times Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:38:04 +0100 On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 00:19, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 16:20, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > > But just for the sake of argument, why do you say the root partition > > should be 200MB? > > root should only be enough to boot with... Currently on my system (I'm the only user of the machine) "du -hc /<folder>/" gave me these space usages: > > /etc = 45MB (with GConf taking 30MB of that) 42M total > /bin = 3.5MB 3.1M total > /sbin = 3MB 4.6M total > /lib = 35MB 58M total > /dev = 128KB 40K total > /root = 15MB or so 51M total > /proc = null 2.8M total/ or: 773M (seems to change from time to time) > /tmp = 50K or so (not a separate filesystem until multi-user/services) 56K total All these values after about half a year since I installed the system ... currently with X, Gnome etc. ... and I hope I can use the machine for the next few years .... :) HTH ... Best Regards, Wolfgang > > / should equal the sum of them ~ 100MB. Adding for growth a bit... > That is why I say 200MB. > > These should all be separate partitions/drive/mountpoints > /usr > /usr/local > /var > /home > /tmp > /boot (personal pref) > > That would keep your problems to a minimum. And keep your reboots to a > minimum as well. -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]