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I use 750MB HD for my linux box and that's I think more than enough
(170MB free space, X, StarOffice, teTeX, Docs, Large Fonts, etc
installed, in fact an almost complete installation of Slakware 3.2).
I notice that you (Bek Oberin) use separate  HD partitions for /home and
/usr eventhough you can make it one big partition (I have impression
that you have one 1Gig HD).
May I know what is the objective of this partition strategy ?

Regards
Kadar



Bek Oberin wrote:

> James Mcpherson (mljmcphe@mailbox.uq.edu.au) wrote...
> > but to get back ontopic, I reckon that 1/2Gig is the minimum these
> > days.  I'm in the throes of filling my 4.3Gb, but I expect it to
> > last me for quite a while.  Basically, get as large a disk as you
> > can afford and you can't go too far wrong.
>
> I'll agree that you can't go wrong really if you get the biggest you
> can reasonably afford, but I think the lower limit is *way* lower
> than that.  I haven't had significant troubles with a setup in 400mb,
> and that's including X (which I tend not to install) ...
>
> Without X, maybe 300mb?  Depends how picky you want to get about
> deleting stuff you don't need, how much source you want, if you want
> to complie stuff, etc., ad nauseum.
>
> Currently I've got a 1 gig disk, of which 300mb is for dos (I get
> paid to program on that bit sometimes, otherwise it wouldn't be
> there!) and the df output is this:
>
> Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda2              50749   14042    34087     29%   /
> /dev/hda6             294655   27962   251474     10%   /home
> /dev/hda1             346528   48632   297896     14%   /mnt/dos
> /dev/hda5             298573  185962    97191     66%   /usr
>
> So obviously I could have done it easily with far far less space!
>
> gossamer
>
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>
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>
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