From: spamtrap42@jacob21819.net   
      
   On 2013-01-23, Aragorn  wrote:   
   > On Wednesday 23 January 2013 00:18, faeychild conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >   
   >> I think this time I will create a separate partition for "HOME"   
   >>   
   >> I am never quite sure how much to allow for "ROOT"   
   >   
   > This is what I currently have with Mageia 1, with a very fair amount of   
   > software installed, including many development packages.  You can use   
   > this as an example to calculate your needed disk space from.   
   >   
   > (Note: Duplicate and/or irrelevant entries [*] have been removed from   
   > the list for clarity.)   
   >   
   >   Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on   
   >   rootfs                445M  352M   94M  80% /   
   >   none                  2.0G  4.0K  2.0G   1% /tmp   
   >   /dev/sda1             295M   48M  247M  17% /boot   
   >   /dev/sda3              25G  6.1G   19G  25% /usr   
   >   /dev/sda5             744M  212K  744M   1% /usr/local   
   >   /dev/sda6             1.5G  160K  1.5G   1% /opt   
   >   /dev/sda7             5.9G  368M  5.5G   7% /var   
   >   /dev/sda8             489G   16G  473G   4% /home   
   >   /dev/sda9              40G   18G   22G  44% /srv   
   >   
   > Notes:   
   >   
   >   1. /tmp is a tmpfs on my system.   
   >   
   >   2. I ended up wasting a lot of space on /opt and /usr/local - strictly   
   >      speaking, you only need a separate /usr/local if you build a lot of   
   >      code from sources, which I have not yet done her - as well as on   
   >      /usr itself, but that's because I had anticipated installing a   
   >      number of games, which I ended up not doing after all due to the   
   >      lack of 3D support in my video driver.   
   >   
   >   3. I've used traditional partitions here, but by putting everything   
   >      except for /boot and the root filesystem on LVM2, you can better   
   >      handle the size requirements.  It's rather easy to enlarge a   
   >      logical volume afterwards if need be, and logical volumes can span   
   >      across multiple disks.   
   >   
   >   
   > [*] Given that I have /etc/mtab symlinked to /proc/self/mounts, there is   
   >     a duplicate entry for the root filesystem (as /dev/root), and then   
   >     /dev and /dev/shm were also listed.   
      
   Having a separate partition/filesystem for /home is a good idea.   
   If you have an existing installation that has at least a somewhat   
   similar set of packages as the new system, another idea for   
   sizing the root filesystem is to allocate double the space the   
   old release is actually using.  That should leave a reasonable   
   amount of headroom for growth.  If going from 32-bits to 64-bits,   
   allocating triple (or quadruple space if you can afford space)   
   may be safer, because 64-bits will take at least a little more   
   space than 32-bits.   
      
   HTH   
      
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   Robert Riches   
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