> I (probably) over partition my machines. This list (from /df -h/) may
> give you some help figuring out what you need where
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2 4.7G 386M 4.3G 9% /
> /dev/sda5 4.7G 3.7G 1.1G 78% /usr
> /dev/sda6 4.7G 2.9G 1.8G 62% /usr/local
> /dev/sda7 4.7G 996M 3.7G 21% /home
> /dev/sda8 9.4G 6.6G 2.8G 71% /opt
> /dev/sda9 4.7G 489M 4.2G 11% /var
> /dev/sda10 9.4G 1.8G 7.6G 19% /var/lib/mysql
> /dev/sda11 47G 564M 47G 2% /spare00
> /dev/sda12 47G 1.4G 46G 3% /spare01
> /dev/sda13 47G 3.6G 44G 8% /spare02
> /dev/sda14 41G 23G 19G 55% /var/lib/vmware
> /dev/sda1 9.8G 6.9G 3.0G 70% /fat-c
> tmpfs 503M 0 503M 0% /dev/shm
>
> Now this is a full-boat Slackware 12 installation (with X), and it has a
> lot of stuff in //opt/ but it looks like root needs at least 400M?
>
> Hope this helps.

Ok, this explains a lot. Also that I won't install Slack 12 on this
machine. Back to Slack 11. Thanks for the info.