From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: partitioning Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:04:58 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040126150458.GA559@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> References: <200401252137.39975.wheds8@ms66.hinet.net> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 01-26, Ken Moffat wrote: > > If you're going to separate /usr, and the reasons for doing so probably > don't apply to many people here, even 3GB should be too much. Depends, > of course, on exactly what you put there, but assuming you don't install > a _lot_ of things you aren't going to use then 3GB is more than enough > for a _full_ system (except /home). > Care to comment on the reasons for putting /usr in it's separate partition?? For the many personal and home office work stations wouldn't that be overkill and not within the KISS philosophy?? Just curious. Cheers. Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20) Utrum Per Hebdomadem Perveniam . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs