On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:56 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Also, I don't think I'll be installing any binary packages. So, how much > > do I give for /opt? Or rather, how much space would Java take up? > > I've got blackdown, sun jdk, a few other apps installed in /opt. I > originally set my partition to 4g, but currently only use 495mb. So you > should be fine with 500mb or slightly slimmer.
> Dave Ive some cleaning to do, but its well over 500M at the moment! rattus opt # ls -al total 1 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 544 Mar 19 15:14 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 480 Feb 18 13:48 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 152 Feb 27 19:17 bin drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 192 Feb 21 2003 blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 192 Nov 25 23:05 blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 Apr 15 2003 blackdown-jre-1.4.1 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 Nov 26 00:15 blackdown-jre-1.4.2.01 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 6 17:43 .keep drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 312 May 19 2004 netscape drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 232 Mar 19 2004 omtest drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 352 Apr 16 18:56 OpenOffice.org drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 Apr 14 2004 OpenOffice.org1.1.1_rc1 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Dec 5 2002 rar drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 320 Apr 23 18:16 RealPlayer drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 288 Mar 19 15:14 RealPlayer8 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 176 Dec 7 10:24 setiathome drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 176 Mar 20 14:34 skype drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 Jul 6 2002 vmware rattus opt # du -sh 661M . rattus opt # /var should have at least 4-5G free to build openoffice I use LVM, adding a second disk was easy - just grew the volume and relevant partitions, expanded the reiserfs file systems and my problem with lack of space was gone. Highly reccomended for future proofing on any system - even single disk systems. I also find multiple partitions very wasteful - most partitions have plenty of space, one runs out of room and the systems crashes or data is lost. From experience, its much safer, and much less work to have fewer partitions (and therefore more headroom - space) and move them around using LVM so the space is shared around. Depends on your usage and application of course - I wouldnt do that on a large, multi user system for instance. Also, I didnt put swap on the LVM - I didnt think that was reccomended at all? BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
