Install / hard drive space problem
 

When I installed Mandrake Linux I selected to have Mandrake choose its own partition sizes.

I just install Unreal Tournament 2003 Linux version. I let it install to the default path that it chose which was /usr/local/games/ut2003.

Now when I look at KDiskFree it says that my /dev/hda1, which was partitioned with only 5.8 Gig, is now 100% full!

It looks like the rest of the space, /dev/hda6, is partitioned to /home. Does this mean I have to install everything to the home directory from now on?

What gives? I'm very confused as to how this is supposed to work.

Thanks!

well how big is ur HDD?

i would do my own partitioning
mine:
119GB Resiver Fs
1GB swap

It's an 80Gig. It gave itself only 5.8Gig for the / directory. I removed Unreal Tournament and it's still 50% full and I've only had Linux installed for a few days. It seems as though this is going to fill up rather quickly.

What should I do?

Thanks!

Re-install Mandrake would be easiest.

This time set up only a swap and root partition or at worst, swap /boot and / (root) partition, the latter getting all of the non-swap space, and leaving about 64 megs for /boot.

Note: /boot is useful for machines which have problems booting from large Mandrake partitions and may not be required in your case.

Arrrgh. I don't want to do a reinstall.

1) Is there another way?

2) Are you saying that the developers made a bad decision when it comes to the partitioning scheme that they chose?

3) So everytime I install something from MCC or urpmi am I slowly going to eat away at my / partition?

4) This seems like a big deal, doesn't it? Something that will mess up everybody.

Yes, but it will be more painful for you than a re-install.

They didn't really choose anything. The choice is up to you.

The defaults merely subdivides the drive leaving as much space as possible for /home and assuming a minimal install.

it's up to you to override this.

Well yes. Each program takes up space after all.

On most hard drives 60-75% of the space tends to be taken up by programs and associated data files, as user files are USUALLY rather small... with exceptions such as video editing, etc..

It's meant to ease things for the first time user.

What would the more painful way be? I have a secondary drive that I can backup to.

Copying the existing installation directory structure to another drive, changing the mount points and copying things back... then verifying any symlinks.

It's not worth it.

Ok, to do a reinstall all I have to do is backup my home directory right? Since all settings are saved there?

Not all settings are saved there, only the your personal desktop stuff is.

I'm going to reinstall this weekend.

I know how to tell it to customize the partitioning, but how do I tell it to put / and /home on the same partition?

Thanks!

If you want root and home on the same partition ONLY create a ROOT partition.

Use a custom partition setup.

One advantage of this is that you can always add another drive as /home later.

I prefer to start out with everything except /boot and SWAP on the first hard drive.

That way I can keep adding drives at key points on the file system as my space requirements go up...

That worked great. Reinstallation went smoothly.

Much thanks!