From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   TJ wrote:   
   > On 06/19/2012 07:50 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >> 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.)   
      
   My Mandriva 2010.0 installation would just about fill that.   
      
   > at which time you can, if you need to, shuffle things around with   
   > less trouble than you now think.   
      
   You're right, especially now that I've found gparted.  Rather than spend   
   forever planning, I just gave the new machine some 50 GB partitions for   
   various distros.  No point trying for perfection when this is good   
   enough, and meanwhile I still have 300 GB unallocated on a 750 GB drive.   
      
   Adam   
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