On 2008-04-30, Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:32:27 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:
>
>> Slackware-current as of a few days ago on a 36GB drive. 5GB for / is
>> really wasting space.
>>
>> [duhring@maxwell ~]$ df
>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda1 2536028K 249748K 2286280K 10% /
>> /dev/sda5 766288K 55288K 711000K 8% /var
>> /dev/sda6 7323400K 4061720K 3261680K 56% /usr
>> /dev/sda7 1949656K 525848K 1423808K 27% /opt
>> /dev/sda8 22150780K 2519668K 19631112K 12% /home
>> tmpfs 1002728K 0K 1002728K 0% /dev/shm
>
> That's fine, if you intend to split out all those partitions like that. I
> would have to guess that most folks don't do that. For example, I split
> out swap and /home, but nothing else, and therefore my / partition would
> have to be quite large (to accommodate /var, /usr, /opt, etc, etc.). My
> answer to the OP was intended for him to correct his problem, as he
> clearly doesn't seperate all those partitions.

Yes, but he does have a separate /usr (and IIRC /home), and assuming
that /var is not very full yet, the only issue is accomodating / and
/opt. So 5GB is still way overkill. If the OP anticipates /var filling
up /, he should split that out now rather than using a 5GB /.

--keith

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