installation opinions

[Scott Kitterman]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:31:17 -0400 "Qiuli Han" <ivyharry at gmail.com> wrote:
>2G will be fine
>
Depends on what you are doing.

I believe temp files have to fit in there to, so you need to allow for that 
when sizing the partitions if you may deal withe large files.

I learned this the hard way trying to cp a 20 GB file.

Scott K

>On 7/20/06, Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I'm installing kubuntu onto a new system dual booting with win2k.  I'm 
going
>> to planning to have / and /home on separate partitions, but I want to
>> maximize the size of /home and still allow for future growth under / as I
>> install new software or upgrade the distro over the next 3 years.  I'm
>> looking for opinions on the minimum / partition size for a kubuntu 
install
>> that would still allow for future growth.  Is 6Gb to small?  8?
>> TIA
>> Paul
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