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Hullo Ben,

> 
> Dan O'Connor wrote:
> 
> > I'd do this:
> >
> > 64M - 128M for /
> 
> I only use about 32MB for /, and it's always been enough so far. I
> sometimes move root's home directory to /usr/home/root though, since 
> I
> often dump loads of stuff there, forgetting it's filling up the root
> filesystem.

I hope you don't do this often :'/ If your device with /usr/home goes
'south' and you try to log in as root... guess what? No home directory
for root anymore :'( This could make a relatively simple task _very_
complicated and needlessly ugly.

Lessons to be learned? 1) leave root's home on the / partition; 2) don't
"dump loads of stuff there". Put it on /tmp if youmust dump it via the
root account. Better still, don't use root for anything othere than
system administration, use a "user" account.

hth,

|-|

> 
> > 256M swap
> > remainder as /usr
> > /var and /tmp symlinks to /usr/var and /usr/tmp, respectively.
> 
> This I agree with, it's the way I've always done it (slightly different
> amount for swap maybe, but somewhere around there).
>


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