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

[Jim Householder]

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
> 
> 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.
> 
> My PC specs are :
> 
> P4 3.0Ghz (Prescott)
> 512 Mb RAM
> 
> ATI Radeon 9200 SE - 128Mb
> 
> 1 x HDD @ 80 Gb
> 1 x HDD @ 30 Gb
> 
> 1 x 17" CRT
> 
> Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
> 
The problem arises because most of the installed stuff goes in /usr, but 
the installer ignores the /usr partition when calculating space 
available.  It's a problem common to several distros.  I have stopped 
having /usr as a separate partition.  I do keep /usr/local separate though.

Jim