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

Ranz ranz at devdata.net
Fri Feb 3 07:43:13 WST 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 00:15 +0800, 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
> /var		1,000 Mb	/dev/hda6
> /home	1,500 Mb	/dev/hda7
> swap	1,000 Mb	/dev/hda8
> 

Your root partition is too small "/ 455Mb /dev/hda2" --> increase this
to at least 2gb (if you want to compile a kernel) or slightly less if
you don't plan on doing that.

-- 
Cheers,

Ranz

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