installation opinions

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:31:17 -0400
"Qiuli Han" <ivyharry at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

> 2G will be fine
> 

Umm, no it won't... For example, if the OP wants to install additional
desktops/ window managers/ big apps in addition to the default stuff, 2G
will run out almost immediately.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8             5.1G  4.3G  546M  89% /

I allowed 5 gig for my / partition, and as you see, I'm right on the edge
of running out of space on it. Next time I'll allow 10 Gig for /  ....

Really it depends how much you want to have installed - I like to have the
flexibility to experiment with different/ new / alternative stuff.

Peter