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View Poll Results: How big is your Linux partition?
If Sigmund Freud were alive today, I think he might have something interesting to say about the topic of this thread ;-)
I generally use the whole harddrive, by the way.
i for some reason found that 12GB is a really nice size for fully functioning Linux desktop. most of my Linux partitions are 12GB. this also makes it easy to move them from one to the other if needed.
If Sigmund Freud were alive today, I think he might have something interesting to say about the topic of this thread ;-)
I generally use the whole harddrive, by the way.
Then again, sometimes a partition is just a partition.
I tell you, I just bought a cheap new 120GB drive from aria.co.uk, and let linux take all of it. Since I don't experiment with other distributions and such so much, this works very nicely for me.
Here is the output of fdisk -l
Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9963 80027766 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 14759 118551636 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14760 14946 1502077+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 14760 14946 1502046 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sda: 64 MB, 64864256 bytes
214 heads, 37 sectors/track, 16 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7918 * 512 = 4054016 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 16 63324+ 6 FAT16
If Sigmund Freud were alive today, I think he might have something interesting to say about the topic of this thread ;-)
What exactly do you mean? I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't understand. Please open my eyes!
Do you mean that:
* size doesn't matter?
* I repeated the phrase 'How big is your Linux partition' three times (thread name, subject, post title)?
* I am 'worried' about smth. nobody else is?
OR WHAT?!?!
Quote:
Originally Posted by aldimeneira
IMO, this poll should be in percentage of the hard drive.
That's not what I wanted to know. I want to know *especially* how much space does Linux use on other people's machines. And if there is anyone running Linux on partitions < 5GB, mostly (because I think for a fully functional KDE desktop one needs at least about 8GB, if you want to store something else in there besides the OS ).
What exactly do you mean? I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't understand. Please open my eyes!
Do you mean that:
* size doesn't matter?
* I repeated the phrase 'How big is your Linux partition' three times (thread name, subject, post title)?
* I am 'worried' about smth. nobody else is?
OR WHAT?!?!
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