A public service announcement (PSA) of sorts.

For years I have created a 20 GB system partition. While I am not involved much this cycle with testing Current, today I updated my Current VM with the recent mega release. By the time the update completed there was not much space left in the 20 GB partition.

I resized to 30 GB. I think 30 GB now will be my new normal. Oh how times have changed from the single CD days!

My update went well. I remembered to remove all stale packages. My VM is configured to boot with Xfce and I immediately noticed the GTK difference.

Anyway, as always, good job Pat that these updates are not traumatic with Slackware.

So long 20 GB system partitions. I knew you well and will miss you!

thanks for confirming this choice, yes 30Go seems right for the Big Merge(tm) iso install.

I set my system partition to around 100G quite awhile ago, gives me plenty of room if needed for package builds that eats a lot of disk space (/tmp). I could shave that down to around 50GB since I came up with a different solution for package building. I'm currently at 26G on a 98G system partition with 67G available, 28% used. I would not feel comfortable with 30G.

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Indeed 20GB seems short

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I guess it depends upon how much other software you add to it, but even 30Gb seems a little 'tight' these days.

Back in the 32 bit days, I was also using 20Gb... but since going full 64 bit I've used 50Gb for my system partitions. On my laptop, I'm considering wiping Windows and reclaiming the space and setting up 3 x 100Gb system partitions in place of the 3 x 50Gb which I currently have. One day... if I get bored!
Still smaller than a clean installation of Windows 10, but significantly more capable out of the box. Adding the same capabilities to Windows 10 makes it more than double that size.

I should add that my OP is for the system partition only. I use other partitions, such as /home, /usr/local, and separate partitions for other use cases such as videos, public files, testing, backups, VMs, etc. With all of those files on other partitions, 20 GB was plenty of room for many years. Those days are gone.

Yes, that was understood... by me at least.

Thanks.

That reminds me of the days when I dual booted on a 3.2 GB disk. Then soon after the original silent Seagate Barracuda disks hit the market I bought a whopping 40 GB disk. The disk was so silent I thought I had bought a dud until I saw the boot spew in my peripheral vision. I multi-booted something like 5 or 6 operating systems on that disk. Those were the days!

I still have my 512 MB disk from my 486. Noisy little bugger.

I well remember by first hard disk -- a 10 MB (not a typo!) SCSI disk for my Amiga 1000. The case was as big as a shoe box. I had no idea how to fill a disk that size.

Now I need 30 GB for just the system partition.

I'm old.

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For me, I've been on 30+ GB for years too, but its getting too crowded now:

This still on 14.2; come 15.0 I'll probably just reinstall and bump up `/` a couple more 10GBs...

I under this, same here.

I should add that the partition size increase is caused by installing all of the KDE Plasma packages. For many years I never installed those packages. I wanted to give Plasma a spin test after 15.0 is released so recently I installed the Plasma packages. Nonetheless I suppose 30 GB is now my new norm.