Partition sizes

[Michael Scottaline]

On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 19:14, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Just installed RH 7.1 and let the automatic installer do it as a server
> but with no graphical thingees (KDE, etc).  Here is the partition table
> it set up:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8             251M   49M  189M  21% /
> /dev/hda1              53M  3.4M   47M   7% /boot
> /dev/hda6              13G   48k   11G   1% /home
> /dev/hda5              13G  424M   11G   4% /usr
> /dev/hda7             251M   16M  221M   7% /var
> 
> This seems odd, seeing as /opt and /tmp are on hda8, which is quite small, and
> /var, which can get quite big, is also a small partition. This seems
> odd. Does anyone know why Redhat does this?
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Seems rather small for sure, but Redhat makes little use of /opt,
usually installing apps into /usr/local.  But even giving that, 189M
seems rather skimpy, especially in light of all of the space you have on
the drive <shrug>
Mike
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