Re: How much drive space for Linux?
From: Jim Kroger (jim_at_invalid.com)
Date: 01/28/04
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:04:28 -0700
In article <slrnc1ehif.h4q.rob@one.localnet>,
"Robert M. Riches Jr." <spamtrap42@verizon.net> wrote:
> It depends somewhat on which five or ten applications you
> mean. Ten of the biggest take considerably more space than
> five of the smallest.
>
Hi, thanks for the reply.
Matlab, and some other graphics and analysis packages. Also, palm
development stuff. Compiler, GUI.
> Also, will you be using a swap file sitting on this
> partition or a separate swap partition? How much RAM do you
> have, and how much heavy RAM-intensive work do you plan to
> do? It is generally recommended to have twice as much swap
> space as you have RAM. (Disk is normally considered to be
> cheap and plentiful, relative to RAM, but if you're using
> more than twice your RAM in swap space, you're probably
> thrashing beyond hope.) If you have enough RAM for what you
> plan to do, you _might_ get by with less swap space.
>
I have a gig of ram in my Dell Latitude D800 (max possible) and a
separate 2 gig swap space on a separate paartition.
> For one reference point, I just installed RHL 9 with
> "everything", and it's taking a little over 5GB plus space
> space. With luck, a few other people will post their
> reference points.
>
Yikes. Sounds like 4 gig is not enough. I don't install everything
but lots of stuff.
> If you can afford a couple of hours to experiment, you could
> make the attempt to install it and see whether it fits. If
> it doesn't fit, that attempt ends up being valuable practice
> for your next installation (attempt).
>
Well, I know my install will fit in under 2-3 gigs. Then there are
the apps. Maybe another gig or two. But I guess my
question is, should I make the partition just big enough to hold Linux
and my apps? I have a separate 30 gig partition for all my data so won't
be filling my home or other directories with stuff. So do I need any
room beyond the Linux and apps? Like extra headroom or something?
Many thanks,
Jim
> Good luck.
>
> Robert Riches
> spamtrap42@verizon.net
> (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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