Thomas Steffen wrote: > On 4/30/07, Stephen Garton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> >> 2. How much space do I _need_ for /? > > A normal installation of Ubuntu (most of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, some of edubuntu, > development tools, TeX and some simulation software) tends to come out at > 5GB for me. You can get a away with a lot less if you choose your packages > careful, but I think 10GB of the 80GB you have is not a bad start.
I'm about to install Fiesty on a new 500Gb drive (to boot first in a dual boot set up with XP on a 160Gb drive in same box). I'm going to keep things simple: partitions for /, /home, and /swap, following advice in this thread. But how big should I make /, given that, if I wanted to, I could give it 100+Gb. How much is 'plenty enough for all contingencies', given that this is a home desktop box doing fairly routine stuff, plus acting as a music server to stream FLAC files to a couple of Slim Devices Squeezeboxes (hence the need for a big disc to hold the music files). TIA -- Ian -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
