Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Duane Clark
<fpga(a)pacbell.net> wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> >
> > I think most users of disks more than a little under 20G would ultimately be
> > unhappy with that. I think I'd skip separate /home if HD size less than
19G.
> > So, something like this:
> >
> > less than 19G -> up to 1G swap, balance /
> > 19G-35G -> 8G /, up to 2G swap, balance /home
> > more than 35G -> 12G /, up to 4G swap, balance /home
> >
>
> I would go way beyond that. Don't users install additional applications?
> I have more than 30GB of applications installed, though I will admit
> that is probably far from typical. I think for under 80GB of space, it
> should be a single partition. Over that, if you are going to go for this
> crazy scheme ;), make / at least 20G.
>
> However, as a user, I can say that I will always use a single partition
> (as I have been doing since my HPUX and Solaris days).
I have a lot, really a lot of applications installed and here is my df -h
/dev/sda6 7,4G 6,1G 1,3G 83% /
I'm talking about live cd + lots of additional software.
What did you do? Install everything from DVD and then go to town on
fedora repos? :)
No, I'm referring to non-fedora software. Some of it is commercial, like
Matlab and VHDL simulators. But there is quite a lot of free software
engineering software available, typically used by engineering students,
that can take up a couple of GBs per app.
For example, take a look at the free single file download here:
http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/i92linwp.htm
A whopping 1.7GB.