partition sizes

[Tony Arnold]

Francisco Borges wrote:

> I'm thinking about using these numbers for my "main system" partitions:
> 
> /user  8G
> /var   1.2G (perhaps this is too big?)
> /tmp   150M
> /boot  100M
> /      1G
> 
> Does anyone have strong (and polite!) opinions about these numbers?

I usually have one parition for /user, /var and /tmp and make it about 8
to 10 gigabytes. Between 50 and 100 meg for /boot should be plenty. You
can calculate this. Take a look at the size of your kernel etc in /boot
and then decide how many kernels you want to have around. I would allow
for a minimum of 3.

So all in all, your figures roughly agree with what I would do.

Regards,
Tony.
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