-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 March 2004 12:23 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Jonathan Schmitt (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Hallo, > > in addition to the other poster, > > > >>/ 100M > >>/swap 512M > >>/boot 15M > >>/usr 5G > >>/usr/local 5G > >>/var 7G > >>/tmp 100M > >>/home The remaining part of a 30G drive, approx 12G > > > > You won't find that setup to be a good idea. Woody doesn't put > > great amounts of data to /usr/local (I just checked, my directory > > is 106 byte), so the 5G there are a bit of wasted there.
The LSB/FSH has deprecated /usr/local and now it is /opt. If you install the LSB package one of the things it does is add the /opt dir. Either way /usr/local-/opt needs to be as big as whatever software the local admin, you?, adds to Debian. > I think Debian doesn't place anything there, except for creating some > directories during install. However, there are cases in which you > need that space in /usr/local, e.g. if you want to install some games > like UT or Quake 3 or install self-compiled software. I would however > think about making /tmp bigger. > > > If You don't have any important reason, I don't see, why You would > > like to split Your harddrive anyway (of course, besides swap). > > Well, the advantages and disadvantages have been discussed here > repeatedly. Just take a look at the archive. > > best regards > Andreas Janssen > > -- > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 > Registered Linux User #267976 > http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUuADk7rtxKWZzGsRAtqzAJ9EE30BAIQ1ve57vEgC4tX4kH2L0wCfVo83 CbQ7Porsjk0S6Xq35y6f6Ak= =xis4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
