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Old 05-02-2008, 05:04 AM
Dan C
 
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Default Re: Slack 12 + 20GB HDD: disk full during install?

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:40:20 +0000, Giovanni wrote:

>> Isn't it obvious? A 100Mb / partition is not nearly big enough. A
>> lot of things get installed in / (or in subdirs which come off of
>> / ). I'd suggest making / about 5G and reduce /usr to 10G. Problem
>> solved.


> 100 MB are more than enough for a root partition in a (almost) full
> installation if you put /boot, /home, /opt, /tmp, /usr, and /var on
> different ones.


Well, no shit. Do you think most people do that? I don't.

Clearly the OP doesn't, and my answer was tailored to his question.


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