Re: Partition sizes

From: David Balch (david_at_balch.co.uk)
Date: 06/12/04

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    Cheers Patrick, that's helpful to know.

    There's no decent reason for the small partition sizes - just me not
    knowing what I'm doing :-/

    Hey, if I changed the name from blue, I'd have to give it a paint job.
    You'll just have to live with it :-P

    Cheers,
    Dave.

    On 11/06/04 21:28, Patrick Lane wrote:
    > 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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