When I installed opensuse 11.2 64-bit (KDE) the installer set the root partition to 20GB by default. That seemed unnecessarily large, so I reduced it to 16GB. I then completed the install (basically a default KDE install minus games & educational stuff) and still had more than 8GB free.
I’m aware that these days hard drive storage space is quite cheap, but it’s not so cheap for me as I have an SSD.
Would it not be reasonable to reduce the default root partition size to 12GB, or perhaps vary it according to the software package load selected?
Most programs are installed in root. Also temp files and logs are in root. So you need to leave it some room I don’t have all that much extra installed and my root is now at 12 gig. If you run out of space in root the OS while crash or act really weird. If this is a serious install and you are not just playing with the OS then you need a min of 20 gig.
I have to agree with gogaltorp
/tmp and /var/log can grow quite rapidly
There is an element of ‘How long is a piece of string?’ about this.
Your / may include /home, mine doesn’t, you may have /usr, /var on separate partitions, I don’t, you have a (presumably smallish) SSD, I have a hard disk…
There are so many factors, and I don’t know which of them the ‘size guessing’ algorithm takes into account.
And, by the way, even with a separate /home, on my laptop (11.1), I am using 12G (11.9-something) out of a 20G partition, so 12G wouldn’t be any good for me, and I haven’t even gone completely ‘hog wild’ installing stuff. So, I think you have to take this as guidance, and modify that according to the local factors that you know about, rather than being the definitive answer to the question, ‘What size should my / partition be?’.
Thanks to you all… this information has proved very useful, I’m installing openSUSE for the first time
On 07/21/2013 09:26 AM, johnoshock wrote:
> I’m
> installing openSUSE for the first time
-=WELCOME=- new user, but be advised that there is SO much difference
between the openSUSE 11.2 in this thread and what you are installing
that it is VERY easy to pick out advice which was good back then, but
won’t work at all now…
otoh: if you are installing 11.2, STOP! you are just wasting
effort…that version cannot be patched to a level of safety you need
to keep secure.
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dd
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat
On 2013-07-21 09:26, johnoshock wrote:
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> Thanks to you all… this information has proved very useful, I’m
> installing openSUSE for the first time
I really hope you are NOT installing 11.2… it is obsolete.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)