[NTLUG:Discuss] Installation learning curve

[Robert Citek]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:14 PM, david <david at rawcreations.net> wrote:
> On a multi user system providing multiple services I do agree, on a
> single (or two) user
> desktop system I feel this is just overkill and possibly a little
> overwhelming for someone
> who just recently decided to try Linux.
>
> Output from df -h on my box that has been running for over two years.
> Can't imagine how you are filling it up. Even if I had not created a
> /var partition my / would still be less then 50%.
> [raw at morpheus:~]df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             9.7G  3.5G  5.7G  39% /
> /dev/hda8              61G   37G   24G  62% /home
> /dev/hda7              20G  838M   18G   5% /var

And then there are those who like to take it a step further and put
everything in one partition:

$ df -hTl -xtmpfs
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb5     ext3     51G   48G  2.7G  95% /

$ swapon -s
Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
/swapfile                               file		2047992	0	-2

That's the nice thing about Linux, you can choose what works for you.

Regards,
- Robert