Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:41:58PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote:
Hi folks,
I've managed to install debian etch on my amd64 system
which I dualboot with FreeBSD. I installed it on a
57GB partition.
I've chosen to let the installer recommend the
partitions and their sizes and the result is:
Bestandssysteem Grtte Gebr Besch Geb%
Aangekoppeld op
/dev/sda2 259M 120M 126M 49% /
tmpfs 1,5G 0 1,5G 0%
/lib/init/rw
udev 10M 100K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1,5G 0 1,5G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda9 41G 223M 39G 1% /home
/dev/sda8 373M 11M 343M 3% /tmp
/dev/sda5 4,6G 1,7G 2,7G 39% /usr
/dev/sda6 2,8G 836M 1,8G 32% /var
Epecially the size of the / partition worries me
because I had the experience that in another os
(ubuntu breezer) it filled up quickly.
I was going to say that I don't see a problem here, but then I
reviewed my partitions. I'm using 300M on my / partition. I have /tmp,
/usr, /var and /home all seperate as above. My system has been running
this configuration for a couple years now with no problem. So, I think
its reasonable that your / partition might be a little bit small, but
I think its close, and if you're careful you should be okay. Note that
I have lots of installed stuff that I dont really use...
So what do you recommend? Should I reinstal and change
the partition sizes? I will use it as a desktop pc, so
I already installed KDE and am planning to install
some bitorrent or other p2p program. I will watch
movies on it and burn cd's.
If you don't plan on installing a bunch more, you'll be okay. Note
that most installation puts stuff in /usr not /.
ymmv
A
As you can see from the following:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 279999 82811 182730 32% /
tmpfs 631764 0 631764 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10240 64 10176 1% /dev
tmpfs 631764 4 631760 1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg1-tmp 253871 12309 228455 6% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg1-var 2064208 721028 1238324 37% /var
/dev/mapper/vg1-usr 8256952 2878948 4958576 37% /usr
/dev/mapper/vg1-home 3096336 2694588 244464 92% /home
I am only using about 81M out of almost 274M on my root partition. This
is an Etch system that I created using debootstrap from my Sarge system
back in August. I made sure that everything that I actually used in
Sarge got installed in Etch. Very little actually goes in the /
partition when you have seperate partions for /tmp, /var, /usr and /home
as I do and the OP says he has, as well. I don't see a problem here.
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Marc Shapiro
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