installation opinions

[Alexander Skwar]

Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>:

> 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...

Yes, it will. There's hardly anything, which you should put on
the / filesystem. Nearly everything goes to /usr and /var - but
the biggies will be in /usr.

> 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.

Nope.

[11:31:13 vz6tml at dewup-ww02:~/public_html/Software/TeamCenter_Engineering/CD 9.1.2/Windows] $ LC_ALL=C df /
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5               522028    246776    275252  48% /

This system is *HEAVILY* used.

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

So do I. That's why I'd *STRONGLY* recommend to allow for flexibility
and not use old style partitioning. That's *WAY* to unflexible.
I'd suggest to use LVM. 

There's a good howto at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/. It's 
quite short and very easy to understand.

Alexander Skwar
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