Best partition size for Ubuntu Root

[Ioannis Vranos]

Young wrote:
> I'm preparing to do a complete re-install using 8.04. It's a dual boot 
> system with multiple drives, and I plan to re-partion the drives before 
> hand so I can improve my back-up scheme, and better share media files, 
> documents and email  between the two OSs.
> 
> I'm trying to determine the largest expected size for Ubuntu plus an 
> average assortment of applications.
> 
> Any suggestions?


My system with average applications installed:


Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc3             292G  6.4G  271G   3% /