On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:56 -0500, Gene Poole wrote: > I might have come up with a basic 'rule of thumb'. The initial updates, > with everything selected, came up to the size of a standard CD - 650MB > (actually 634MB exactly). So if your /var filesystem doesn't have 750MB > available, don't even start the update until after that has been rectified. Actually, this also depends on how you are going to use your Fedora system. The distribution tends to use /var for a ton of stuff. For example, if you are running a web server, your web pages go into /var/www/html; if you are running a SMTP server, then your mail spool is there too (do NOT underestimate the amount of disk space this can take up -- I've had a badly written php script fill the spool up with over 10 Gigs or stuff); and your logs also go inside there -- which can fill up pretty quickly if you have a system or application problem. Typically, I would divide up the disk space sparingly for /home, /, and of course /boot, and give the rest to /var. For desktops and laptops, I generally go with the default partitioning -- which is /boot and the rest to /. Anyway, just my 2 cents. pascal chong
