How big is your Ubuntu partition?

[Eagles18]

I started off with a 20GB partition and ended up with a 60GB partition.

[H2SO_four]

I started off with a 20GB partition and ended up with a 60GB partition.

+/- 80 GB (much larger than it needs to be)

[pwnst*r]

i'm assuming your numbers are because of video/music files also?

[Eagles18]

i'm assuming your numbers are because of video/music files also?

Actually,I store my media files in my Windows partition.But,since I hardly ever use Windows,I decided to increase the size of my Ubuntu partition.

[The Jinx]

I think you screwed up with the "> 5gb" thing you meant "< 5gb"

[NoaHall]

You're realllllly bad at making poll options :) I would expect most people to have a partition of at least 60GB/70GB

[Eagles18]

I think you screwed up with the "> 5gb" thing you meant "< 5gb"
No,I meant ">(less than)5GB."


You're realllllly bad at making poll options :smile: I would expect most people to have a partition of at least 60GB/70GB

I thought most people didn't make their Ubuntu,but I didn't take the fact that this is the Ubuntu forum into consideration.BTW,how do I edit the poll options.

[pwnst*r]

Actually,I store my media files in my Windows partition.But,since I hardly ever use Windows,I decided to increase the size of my Ubuntu partition.

i actually meant to quote h2s0_four. he said it's much bigger than it needs to be, which i don't understand.

[SuperSonic4]

280gb

albeit / is 35

[The Funkbomb]

~200gb

[Chronon]

440 gb

[The Jinx]

No,I meant ">(less than)5GB."

< 5gb means less than
> 5gb means greater than

[amauk]

tony@tony-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 18G 5.6G 12G 33% /
/dev/sda4 342G 90G 236G 28% /home
tony-server:/roms 2.7T 2.2T 408G 85% /media/raid5/roms
tony-server:/scripts 185G 343M 176G 1% /home/tony/scripts
tony-server:/dump 2.7T 2.2T 408G 85% /media/raid5/dump
tony-server:/tony 2.7T 2.2T 408G 85% /media/raid5/tony
tony-server:/music 2.7T 2.2T 408G 85% /media/raid5/music
tony-server:/media 2.7T 2.2T 408G 85% /media/raid5/media

[ViRMiN]

4TB but / is 10GB, far larger than necessary.

[Xbehave]

No,I meant ">(less than)5GB."
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_than) means more than

Not on ubuntu atm but i've let my current / grow to 6.4G (voted for >5 because that's my normal / I just let this one grow for debugging info and libraries used to compile stuff). I find a small / stops me installing too much crap. i did split up my debian install and crammed the entire thing (/,/usr,/var) into <4G

[slakkie]

8 GB root slice
2 GB swap
300 MB log dir
2 GB opt
40+ homedir

So voted for 5-10 GB

[Paqman]

/ = 11GB
/home = 31GB
swap = 3GB

Probably should shrink that swap down, since boot times these days make hibernation a bit pointless.

[Eagles18]

< 5gb means less than
> 5gb means greater than

Whoops,can anyone tell me how to edit the poll?

[markp1989]

my root is about 20gb


mark@torrentslave:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 19G 5.4G 13G 31% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 2.0G 128K 2.0G 1% /var/run
varlock 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock
udev 2.0G 224K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 2.0G 19M 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 2.0G 2.7M 2.0G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-server/volatile
/tmp 1.0M 120K 904K 12% /tmp
vartmp 1.0M 4.0K 1020K 1% /var/tmp
varlog 8.0M 3.5M 4.6M 43% /var/log
/dev/sda5 1.4T 627G 662G 49% /media/torrents
/dev/sdb1 1.4T 547G 760G 42% /media/disk2
mark@torrentslave:~$


this is my only pc with ubuntu rest are running arch.

[ZankerH]

/home - 80GB
/ - 20GB
/boot - 512 MB
/var,/tmp - 10 GB each
/media/stuff - 1TB minus everything listed above

[CharlesA]

charles@thor:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 283G 88G 181G 33% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 2.0G 1.9M 2.0G 1% /var/run
varlock 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock
udev 2.0G 144K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 2.0G 1.5M 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 2.0G 2.5M 2.0G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-16-server/volatile
/dev/sdb1 3.6T 1.3T 2.2T 36% /array
/dev/sdc1 1.4T 1.3T 64G 96% /sync


/ is 88GB but it has a 84GB disk image sitting on my desktop. >.>

[sports fan Matt]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 453G 3.8G 427G 1% /
udev 1002M 248K 1002M 1% /dev
none 1002M 124K 1002M 1% /dev/shm
none 1002M 92K 1002M 1% /var/run
none 1002M 0 1002M 0% /var/lock
none 1002M 0 1002M 0% /lib/init/rw

[lovinglinux]

Wow, some people have really big Ubuntu partitions.

This is my partition scheme:

sdb1 - swap - 2 Gb
sdb2 - root - ext4 - 12 Gb
sdb3 - home - ext4 - 8 Gb (for settings only)
sdb4 - personal data - ext4 - 125 Gb (with symlinks inside home)

sda1 - personal data - 40 Gb (with symlinks inside home)
sda2 - root (for beta testing) - ext4 - 8 Gb
sda3 - windows - ntfs - 25 Gb

[jollysnowman]

6gB... I store my data in another partition.

[kio_http]

50 Gb

[CharlesA]

Heh I just chose "use entire disk" when I installed Ubuntu.

All my data is stored on a RAID array mounted to /array. :p

[gnuvistawouldbecool]

This computer, about 10GB since it's not only my computer/want to leave room for games in windows.

My laptop has a 17GB /, 25GB /home. Computer I built from recycled/reused parts (which runs Mandriva), has 36GB /, 50GB /home, 155GB /mnt/windows.

/ generally I make rather large since I usually end up installing a lot of compiling stuff, or install things I don't really need and never clean it out.

[xpod]

My main Ubuntu installation on my desktop is about 20G / with 200G /home.
This laptop, with lubuntu, has the whole 40G drive given to / with no separate /home partition at the moment.

The first time i ever installed Ubuntu(6.06) was on a 3.2G slave drive i`d stuck in the desktop i was using at the time, purely for fear of damaging the main 40G drive that i`d only recently managed to re-install XP on.
The updates soon took their toll though and it was only a week later that my 3.2G drive was sacked, as was Windows, and the whole drive was given to Ubuntu.

[Zoot7]

mark@mark-xps:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 73G 22G 48G 31% /
udev 1006M 336K 1006M 1% /dev
none 1006M 4.0M 1002M 1% /dev/shm
none 1006M 212K 1006M 1% /var/run
none 1006M 0 1006M 0% /var/lock
none 1006M 0 1006M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda3 146G 76G 63G 55% /home
/dev/sda2 242G 127G 115G 53% /media/Windows

70 gigs for the system and 150 gigs for /home. I probably should resize the system and make it smaller as most of the stuff I accumulate over time goes in my home directory anyway.

On my homebuilt desktop, Ubuntu occupys a 750Gb Hard Drive - 100 gigs for the system and the remainder of the Hard Drive for /home.

[lovinglinux]

70 gigs for the system and 150 gigs for /home. I probably should resize the system and make it smaller as most of the stuff I accumulate over time goes in my home directory anyway.

On my homebuilt desktop, Ubuntu occupys a 750Gb Hard Drive - 100 gigs for the system and the remainder of the Hard Drive for /home.

Why do you need 70-100Gb for system files? How much of that are you using, not considering home?

[Zoot7]

Why do you need 70-100Gb for system files? How much of that are you using, not considering home?
I don't need it. TBH little enough of it is used with me, generally somewhere in or around the 30GB mark, I've been meaning to resize it for some time now.

[Exodist]

LOL, my entire PC is GNU/Linux. Windows is like 20GB out of the 390+ GB I have..

[Dai Bando]

> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_than) means more than

Not on ubuntu atm but i've let my current / grow to 6.4G (voted for >5 because that's my normal / I just let this one grow for debugging info and libraries used to compile stuff). I find a small / stops me installing too much crap. i did split up my debian install and crammed the entire thing (/,/usr,/var) into <4G
 means equal to or less than
≥ " " " " more than

[Bradyhawke]

This should help...

http://www.mathsisfun.com/equal-less-greater.html

Just in case anyone is still confused, hehe


:lolflag:

[ColdFFF]

 means equal to or less than
≥ " " " " more than

The underline in the post you quoted is there because it is a link...

[Dehouston]

9.10 - 68GB
9.04 - 4.6GB (getting rid of)
Windows XP - 72GB

[Genius2999]

I'm living on a 20GB hard disk atm, only because my 1TB disk crashed and burned :(

[jward3010]

I'm not going to go crazy over readin this whole post, but those at the start who say the poll options are crazy because they don't contain "huge" options are crazy. They obviously don't split up there Ubuntu partitions between "/" root and "/home" - they just make one enormous partition.

I picked 5-10GB and that to be specific is for root. I will always set up a separated home partition or use a large NTFS partition for my stuff which might be enormous but install Ubuntu into nothing more than 5 or 6GB. If I ripped DVD's and encoded video or edited enormous picture files then maybe bigger but I don't need more than that.

This was an unclear poll in a way.

[Megrimn]

Karmic - 60GB
Vista - 168GB

I only had 10GB left on the karmic partition, and had wondered where all the space went... turns out, cleaning up the old ubuntu isos gave me back 10GB more :biggrin:

[ctrlmd]

40 including music and other data

[CP1256]

20 GB on my server, 30 GB on my desktop. The rest is usually the /home partition.

[Marlonsm]

30Gb for me.
But most of my files are stored in the 130Gb Windows XP partition.

[Foster Grant]

/ partition is roughly 10.5 gigabytes. /home partition is 94.6 gigabytes. Both partitions have vast amounts of free space for expansion. Five gigs left over for swap; slightly more than I need but it's not like I'm hurting for hard drive space.

Props to the dev team for allowing users to install separate / and /home partitions instead of forcing us all to use Debian's default of throwing everything on one partition.

[Squonk07]

My Ubuntu partition is 20 GB, but my separate /home directory is 50 GB, so combined they come out to the highest option in the poll.

[Dougie187]

/ - 23GB
/home - 123GB
swap - 1.5GB

[~unknown]

125GB Windows XP NTFS
125GB Ubuntu ext4
250GB Files NTFS

[seeker5528]

For my personal machines, for basic use or basic +Myth TV 20 to 40 GB covers me. TV recordings go on a seperate partition that only gets used for TV or TV and Music.

For my primary machine, since I don't re-partition very often, it's closer to 60 GB so it will handle increasing sizes of games and other software, and leave me room to be lazy about getting other stuff moved off to other partitions I use for longer term storage.

Later, Seeker

[ElSlunko]

1.5 tb!

[The Real Dave]

/ ~8GB
/home ~38.5GB
/media/Data ~250GB
/media/Backups ~70GB
/media/XP ~5GB
/swap ~1GB
/home/An-Lar ~600GB (Server mounted through SSHFS)

[Chronon]

They obviously don't split up there Ubuntu partitions between "/" root and "/home" - they just make one enormous partition.


That is not obvious at all. In order to formulate an answer, I took the union of all partitions used in my Ubuntu system.