Re: Partition sizes

From: Patrick Lane (patrick.m.lane_at_csun.edu)
Date: 06/11/04

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:28:27 -0700

    everything looks reasonable to me except that / is definitely too small
    and I generally allocate a lot more space to /tmp. Any reason in
    particular you're keeping it so small? I also usually have a /boot
    partition.

    btw, my box is named blue also, damned biter! =)

    On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:55, David Balch wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I think I need to change my hard drive partitioning on a testing
    > install, and want to make sure I'm not missing something that
    > would mean I didn't have to. Here's the situation...
    >
    > david@blue:~$ uname -a
    > Linux blue 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
    >
    > david@blue:~$ df -h
    > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    > /dev/hda1 133M 92M 34M 74% /
    > tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm
    > /dev/hda5 4.6G 2.3G 2.2G 52% /usr
    > /dev/hda6 2.8G 2.0G 672M 75% /var
    > /dev/hda7 15M 1.1M 13M 8% /tmp
    > /dev/hda8 105G 2.5G 97G 3% /home
    >
    > I'm practically out of space on my root partition, which was allocated
    > 133Mb by Debian Installer. (Although I'm not certain it wasn't picking
    > up some older partitioning.) The space is used (approx) by:
    >
    > blue:/# du -hs /lib /etc /boot /sbin /bin
    > 43M /lib
    > 28M /etc
    > 12M /boot
    > 2.9M /sbin
    > 2.8M /bin
    >
    > When attempting to install a second kernel, / runs out of space and the
    > install fails.
    >
    > Does this look within a sensible range for a desktop with Gnome?
    > i.e. my / partition is just too small, and I'll have to change it.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Dave.
    >
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