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

[Richard Meyer]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 02:44 +0800, garry wrote:
> 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?

I'm using SUSE 10 OSS and space used by my /usr is just under 3GB, and I
have it as part of my root directory /, which is 10GB and 48% full
- /var is also part of this and just under 500MB at the moment.

The only directories I've split out are /home.

HTH
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Garry
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