on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:45:04PM -0400, Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am about to install debian on a 4 gig hard drive. I have looked
> around at How-tos and other documentation. But I have been unable to
> find any solid sugestions on how to size the partitions. All of them
> give one or two vague recomedations, and say that there are many wars
> about the proper way to do it.
You obviously haven't been looking in the right place:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
;-)
This details two systems, one with 6 GB storage, the other with 20 GB,
which should give you an idea of variances with storage size. I've also
just installed Debian on a dual-boot laptop, with about 4GB available:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda9 65846 30486 31960 49% /
/dev/hda11 21929 1322 19475 7% /boot
/dev/hda12 65846 13342 49104 22% /tmp
/dev/hda13 758936 290104 430280 41% /var
/dev/hda14 2016488 1216856 697196 64% /usr
/dev/hda15 580364 114368 436516 21% /home
See the link above for more detail. All systems are running Debian.
> I also remember reading something about having to size a partition
> larger because of apt's cache. I would apreciate any advice on the
> debian size of partitions.
Yes, in general, you want to be somewhat generous with /var. The 750 MB
above is pretty sufficient and handles the apt cache well. You can thin
it down to 500MB if you don't mind manually clearing the cache
periodically.
Peace.
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