* Rudy Godoy <r...@stone-head.org> [2014-01-24 12:55]: > Today, a 10GB partition for root is really small. Take in count that > / will hold /var/lib and /var/log along with /usr. For a standard > desktop install it takes almost 6GB of space, leaving 4GB for other > software and software's own data files, such as database or logs. > > I propose to use 20% of the disk size or a minumum of 50GB for the > root partition.
I agree that 10 GB is too small. 50 GB sounds like a lot to me, though. Maybe 30-40 GB? What do you think? If there's a separate /var and /tmp, how much for those? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/