From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
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