Uttered "John Parsons" <J.Parsons@xxxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > I'm trying to install Fedora to a 20Gb disk that has been partitioned up > as follows: > > /boot > / > /tmp > /var > /usr > /usr/local > /opt > Swap > > My /boot partition is 100Mb and the / partition is 250. However, after > setting all the install options, the process terminates telling me I > don't have enough disk space. I can't find anything that tells me what > the minimum size is for any partition and wondered if anybody could shed > some light on my problem. Keep in mind that every EXT3 system burns at least 30MB for the journal file, in *every* EXT3 partition. For an individual's system, a swap, a "/", a "/boot" and a "/home" partition is usually enough. If you're compiling and adding several custom packages, an "/opt" partition might be worth the trouble. A server configuration might use as many partitions as you've indicated. I never allow "/boot" to be an EXT3 partition: it's almost never written to (consider remounting it RO) and using an EXT2 partition here saves me a lot of wasted space. Unless you want to keep tons of old kernel files lying around, a 32MB "/boot" should be fine. (The Anaconda configurator will grumble during the installation about this being too little, but Anaconda wants to make it an EXT3 partition.) YMMV.
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