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    Apart from swap and /home, how much space have you alloted for your linux parition ?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by wearetheborg, Oct 26, 2009.

  1. wearetheborg

    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    Apart from swap and /home, how much space have you alloted for your linux parition ?
    Also post your partitioning scheme for your HDD :)
     
    wearetheborg, Oct 26, 2009
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Linux is extremely frugal with hard disk space; probably because it primirily runs servers, which save aim to space for data storage.
     
    Bog, Oct 27, 2009
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Where's the "all of it" option? ;) I mean, 90% of the storage in my house is Linux-based.
     
    Pitabred, Oct 27, 2009
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    My OS partition has never been bigger than 4GB, it still sufficient for my use.
    OS - 4GB
    swap - 1GB
    /home - 10 GB
     
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  5. wearetheborg

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    I'm talking about space apart from storage (ie, outside /home) :p
     
    wearetheborg, Oct 27, 2009
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    Here's my usage on the desktop
    30G 9.5G 21G 32% /

    5GB is in /usr and 2.5GB in /var
     
    D-EJ915, Oct 27, 2009
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    That is outside home. It's a 3TB array mounted in /media
     
    Pitabred, Oct 27, 2009
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