Ken Moffat wrote: > On 3 July 2010 14:28, linux fan <linuxscra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If the 50GB host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5) is needed to run (yes, >> I think), then you need to use a separate partition to contain the >> destination LFS system. I think 12 GB is a good size. 5GB is a little >> too small if many things will be installed (a typical desktop system >> with lots of goodies). > > I shudder to think about what you are using to fill that up ;) I'm > still happy with 3GB for '/', with separate /sources and /home. > Your system, your rules - just make sure you remember to back > up.
On a machine I've been using for several years: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 8.1G 6.8G 970M 88% / /dev/sda13 17G 6.1G 9.4G 40% /opt On my new non-lfs system: /share 97T 5.0T 92T 6% /share /work 194T 167T 27T 87% /work /scratch 806T 685T 121T 85% /scratch /corral 688T 235T 419T 36% /corral BTW: $ free total used free Mem: 32913636 32844280 69356 ... processor : 15 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 2 model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8354 stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2200.000 :) -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page