hello and perhaps some help

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:03:13PM -0700, Regina Woodard wrote:
> The slave is a Fujitsu limited with 1.96GB

home:~> df -Th
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2      xfs    247M  203M   45M  83% /
/dev/hda7      xfs     14G   14G  428M  98% /home
/dev/hda5      xfs    3.8G  3.6G  170M  96% /usr
/dev/hda3      xfs    2.8G  679M  2.2G  24% /var
/dev/hda8      xfs     92G   85G  6.7G  93% /var/ftp
/dev/shm     tmpfs    384M   21M  364M   6% /tmp
/tmp          none    384M   21M  364M   6% /var/tmp

/ and /usr partitions (which hold most of OS and application code 
and static data) are ~4Gb, and this is a multi-user desktop with
WindowMaker, Fluxbox and KDE3 (and half of GNOME2) all installed;
also the developer's workstation / build server so development
packages (like compilers) are also kind of present.

/var has some 100 or so megabytes of OS/apps data which weren't 
generated by user activities (like databases and such).

/home is a separate story having archives since some 1999 or earlier.

/var/ftp is a catch-all partition, both downloads from dmusic.com
and unstable repo snapshots mirror are there.

One desktop Linux system (WindowMaker one, running on
Pentium 133) was using 1.2Gb drive or so -- an installation
was taking up some 600 megs, user data being the rest).

So, it might help to plan a dedicated /home for user data but 
2 Gb for OS and apps is perfectly OK given there's no development
or NWN installed in same old /usr.  Maybe somewhere sooner or
later, but it helps a lot in different ways.


"Partition mini-HOWTO" document should be easily googled up.

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