Hi,
I am mew to linux and have installed fedora 12 on my system.
The parttion sizing which i had done is :
\ - 17 gb
\home- 8 gb
\tmp -1gb
\usr -2gb
\boot -200mb
swap - 4gb ( i have 2 gb RAM)
all partitions of ext4 format.

I would like to know that whenever i m going to install any new software or packages then it will be installed in which folder or partition?

I have only 170 mb space free in \usr and have not installed any thing yet. do i need to resize it. If yes, then how can I do so?

please elaborate if possible!!!

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

Well usually one would just have one partition for / and another for swap with maybe one more for /boot and have the other folders just be part of the / partition but it sounds like you had some more stringent requirements. Unfortunately the package manager will install most of the binaries to some part of the /usr folder as will `make install` commands. If you want to re-size that partition boot from a LiveCD and then use a program called gparted (usually in the system menu). It will give you a graphical partition manager. You must make sure that all partitions are unmounted before they are modified or it will complain at you.

Best of luck

yum (PackageKit) will download packages to /var before installing.
Especially when using preupgrade, all packages to be upgraded (F12 -> F13) will be first downloaded to /var/cache/yum

Someone may know how much space is needed to for example hold all F12 packages currently.

I used to have also separate partitions (under LVM though) for different main directories, but it was just too much trouble and nowadays I just have / and /boot, where / is crypted and under LVM, so I may make it bigger with another harddisc some day.

It would make some sense to have /usr as separate partition and have it read only. Also /home would have noexec-flag in it and so on, to make system more secure. But it gets too much trouble to then make updates (at least automatically) and it is difficult to predict how much space is needed in the future for different main directories.

it looks like your partitioning is a bit off

/tmp -- is not needed AND WAY TO SMALL
/usr -- is not needed AND WAY TO SMALL


i would get ride of those two and let the system make it's own "temp and /usr

almost ALL fedora rpm's will be installed to /usr so 2 gig won't do