[plug] S.U.S.E 10 - Install - Partitioning

garry garbuck at westnet.com.au
Fri Feb 3 02:44:29 WST 2006


Arie Hol wrote:
> I am currently preparing my main desktop machine so I can install S.U.S.E 
> 10 OSS.
>
> The S.U.S.E. 10 installer tells me that my / partition does not have 
> enough free space - dialog shows that it needs at least 800 Mb.
>
> Is this right ?
>
> I prefer to do my partitioning manually, rather than let the installer do 
> it for me.
>
> My current partitioning regime is as follows :
>
> /		455 Mb	/dev/hda2
> /boot	196 Mb	/dev/hda3
> /usr	7,000 Mb	/dev/hda5
>
> The above regime has served me well for many of my past Linux installs, 
> but it looks like it may time to make some changes.
>
>
> Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
>   

Reduce your /usr to 6,000MB and increase / to 1455MB?


HTH

Garry



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