2009/2/25 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com>:
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 13:35:49 -0800,
> Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 15:25 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> You might need to be smarter than that. I have a lot installed (including
>>> some rpmfusion stuff), but hardly everything and my / is close to 40 GB.
>> That's really rather big. How'd you hit that? Are you sure you don't
>> have some specific thing taking up a lot of space? What's du or baobab
>> or something tell you?
>
> I have all of the different language stuff installed which adds quite a
> bit. I don't actually use anything except English, but I like to check
> for conflicts, as occasionally there will be conflicts that only appear
> in a subpackage for a specific language.
>
games are something you'd see on a desktop install and those can take up
quite a bit of room.
Also, 100 MB for boot (per original proposal) is definitely
insufficient: I have a 160 MB boot and when using the preupgrade tool,
it failed -- not enough space -- until I removed all but one kernel.
Let's say 256 MB boot. Everything else really depends on usage. Should
we not distinguish between server-centric (large /var, smaller /) and
desktop-centric (no need for separate /var and /tmp, big /) usage?
Plus, given that the default setup is LVM anyway, let's not allocate
100% of the space. That way, if the partitioning logic gets it wrong,
the too-small partition can be grown without having to stick in
another disk.
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