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View Poll Results: How big is your Linux partition?
<256M 1 2.04%
<512M 1 2.04%
<1G 0 0%
<2G 2 4.08%
<5G 5 10.20%
<10G 8 16.33%
<20G 5 10.20%
<40G 5 10.20%
<60G 2 4.08%
<100G 10 20.41%
> (please specify!) 10 20.41%
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Old 02-16-2006, 11:55 AM   #1
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How big is your Linux partition?


A question for those (including me) who don't split Linux on different partitions (/boot, /home, /, etc.).

How much space did you give to Linux?
 
Old 02-16-2006, 12:22 PM   #2
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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.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 12:37 PM   #3
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Well, on one machine, I have ~500GB storage total... but as a single-partition install: 6GB on my dual-booting laptop. Plus 512 swap.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 01:38 PM   #4
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Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 27.3 GB, 27373731840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        3327    26724096    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1        7154    57464473+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2            7155        7297     1148647+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hde: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1   *           1       30025   241175781   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdf: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdf1               1       19457   156288321   42  SFS

Disk /dev/hdg: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdg1               1       24321   195358401   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdh: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdh1               1        9732    78172258+  42  SFS
 
Old 02-16-2006, 01:46 PM   #5
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I have an 80GB disk split like so:

OpenSuSE 10.0: 21GB partition (3.2GB used)
SuSE 9.1 Pro: 28GB partition (7.8GB used)
Windows 98: 26GB partition (9.3GB used)
Swap partition: 363MB

The main reason for the much larger size of the Windows and 9.1 partitions is that quite a few MP3 tracks, digital photos, etc. are saved there.

Rob
 
Old 02-16-2006, 01:52 PM   #6
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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.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 06:38 PM   #7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JunctaJuvant
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.


200GB in this compy.
160GB in the other compy
 
Old 02-16-2006, 06:41 PM   #8
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I have 55+ GB in 3 partitions:
/
/home
swap

IMO, this poll should be in percentage of the hard drive.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 09:35 PM   #9
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Woudl!!!

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
And here is the output of df -h
Code:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1             112G   18G   89G  17% /
tmpfs                 253M     0  253M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                 253M   13M  240M   5% /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/volatile
/dev/hda1              77G   14G   64G  18% /media/windows
/dev/sda1              62M   55M  7.7M  88% /media/FACKIN
Yes.

Last edited by PatrickMay16; 02-16-2006 at 09:37 PM.
 
Old 02-16-2006, 11:12 PM   #10
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[scuzzy@slackdell /home/scuzzy]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              28G  5.6G   21G  22% /
/dev/hdb1             187G   45G  134G  25% /home
[scuzzy@slackdell /home/scuzzy]$
 
Old 02-17-2006, 03:15 AM   #11
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I have a 80 GB harddisk and split it into four partitions:

hda1: 500 MB swap
hda2: 10 GB / (Slackware current)
hda3: 10 GB / (for test installations)
hda4: 58 GB /data

/home and /www are linked to the /data partition.
 
Old 02-17-2006, 11:37 AM   #12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JunctaJuvant
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 ).
 
Old 02-17-2006, 12:07 PM   #13
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Quote:
Originally Posted by exit3219
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?!?!
He was just making a little joke. You may understand it better if you read these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
 
Old 02-17-2006, 12:26 PM   #14
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On my desktop, I have an 80Gb HDD partitioned like this:
5Gb / Slackware 10.2 w/KDE as default
1Gb swap
74GB /home

On my laptop I have a 40Gb like this:
10Gb WINXP Pro
38Gb FC4
2Gb FC4 Swap

When I was setting up my desktop, I couldn't find any conventions on / partition size so I set it at 5Gb, but should I go bigger?
 
Old 02-17-2006, 01:26 PM   #15
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Laptop (20GB disk):
4.5GB / Kubuntu 5.10
10GB /home
768MB Swap
rest: used for testing other distros.

Desktop (15GB disk):
4.5GB / Debian Etch with KDE
10GB /home
512MB Swap
 
  


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