Re: Size of default partition with d-i beta3

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Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 00:59:51 -0400
To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

Brent Bailey wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:26, richard lyons wrote:
>
>>On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote:
>>
>>>A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I
>>>kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user
>>>set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G drive. Now / is
>>>full, and every other partition is hardly used. I can't mount a
>>>cdrom to burn a copy of my files from home that I need. All
>>>partitions are ext3. Is there a way to add more space to /
>>>(preferably from /home) without having to re-format both
>>>partitions?
>>
>>What is your present partitioning scheme? What do df and mount say?
>>
>
> df:
> /dev/sda1 135468 134724 0 100% /
> tmpfs 452892 0 452892 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda5 4807056 1533208 3029664 34% /usr
> /dev/sda6 2885780 863160 1876032 32% /var
> /dev/sda7 15022 1060 13161 8% /tmp
> /dev/sda8 68571736 5397808 59690636 9% /home
>
>

That seems a perfectly reasonable scheme to me. You might want to
double check that something isn't on the root partition that shouldn't
be['du -m --max-depth=3 -x / | sort -n']. /root should be almost empty,
/opt shouldn't be on the root partition if you are using it[putting it
on the /usr partition is one idea], and nothing should take up a lot of
space on /etc. The exception to this last point is /etc/gconf, but I
consider that a bug[which is already reported #227726, but the reporter
is off by an order of magnitude[/etc/gconf/ is *19MB* for me, I also
question the need for /etc/X11 to be 15MB, mostly due to
/etc/X11/xserver/C/print/models/PSdefault/fonts/]]. There also isn't
much point in having more than 2 kernels on the system. Don't get me
wrong, it is possible for / to legitimately need more than 130MB[and if
you really aren't using the space elsewhere than you might as well make
it bigger], it's just that my / is only 95MB, and I've seen posts from
other people to suggest that that is on the high end.

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