On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:19:42PM -0700, Gerald Thompson wrote: > Actually I forgot about the /boot partition, needs to be within the 1024 > cylinder barrier. That was why I had to use partition magic. This restriction doesn't apply to most computers made in the five or six years. Can't hurt, of course. > - /usr - 10 GB - usr is where all your software goes, don't bother making a > separate /usr/local, you don't have enough space to mess around, keept all > /usr stuff on the same partition > - /home - at this point you should have 5.450 GB available for home, if you > plan to install a lot of software you can probably take some from /home and > give it to /usr, please remember though /home is where you store all your > files, so don't make it too small. Conversely, if you aren't going to install full GNOME+KDE+everythingavailable, you could give yourself a lot more space for your own files by making /usr 4 or 5GB and /home bigger. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon1>
