Whenever I install it, I create an large / partition.. with this "little"
space of 1 GB you will automatically run into trouble if you set / too
small and an programm does not install itself in an desired folder...
I prefer the following "partitions":
Swap: more than 20 MB should be enough - max 10% of memory.
boot: 10 MB are enough - here is only the kernel with its 1-3 MB
/: the rest... you are most flexible with the other directorys. if an new
prog does not fit, delete some files in your home directory :)
for an System with limited resources an better way than the security that
you MAY have by several partitions...

Regards, Bigfoot29

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, S Dobson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What is an 'acceptable' size for the root / partition?
>
> I am using a z50 with a 1gb CF card - I installed bsd with the defaults
> and have so far just installed the dillo package.  After trying to then
> install abiword I got a disk full error and checked the disk with df.
> /usr is 800mb and 50% full and / is 50mb and 101% full
>
> Could there be a problem with junk somewhere that needs removing, or
> should I have tried to increase the size of / ?  I set TMPDIR to
> /usr/tmp before installing dillo.
>
> Can I repartition now, or do I have to reinstall from scratch?
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> steve
>
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