From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 06/19/2012 07:50 PM, Adam wrote:   
   > [combining three overlapping replies]   
   >   
   > Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >>> I'm thinking 80 GB for each root partition   
   > [...]   
   >> But I agree with Bit Twister that 80 GB is larger than needed   
   >> - a third to a half that might be a better choice.   On the other hand,   
   >> disk space is there to be used  ;-)   Just don't waste it 'cause you've   
   >> got it.   
   >   
   > I'm trying to think ahead.  The new box will probably be my primary   
   > system for the next 4-5 years, and what will the distros of 2016 want?   
   > I'm now thinking 50 GB for each root partition.   
   >   
   IMO, that's still overkill if you're only looking five years ahead. My   
   present Mageia 2 install(32-bit) uses less than half of the 12 GB   
   partition I have for it. (That's everything but /home and swap.) I can't   
   remember for sure what my first Mandrake install of 10 years ago used,   
   but I can't see it being much less than half that. And I use a lot more   
   stuff than I used to - but then again back then both KDE and Gnome were   
   installed(now just KDE), and most likely then as now a bunch of other   
   stuff I never used, so it probably evens out.   
      
   Even so, if you postulate necessary space quadrupling over the next five   
   years instead of doubling as it has over the last 10, you still are safe   
   with 25 GB/distro. And even if I'm all wet about that, my guess is that   
   after you experiment with several distros for a year or so you'll   
   dislike most of them for one reason or another and finally settle on   
   two, three, maybe four that you like. You won't really care about the   
   rest, at which time you can, if you need to, shuffle things around with   
   less trouble than you now think.   
      
   TJ   
      
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