How big is your...

[wdaniels]

...root filesystem? (no home data, used space only)

I was just wondering how much space should be allocated to a root partition. I've always tended to allocate around 10-20GB, but never used more than about 5.5GB in practice, so I'm interested to do a quick survey to get an idea of the average...

[swoll1980]

3 gb for me

[Joeb454]

14GB

/home is 15 :)

[Istonian]

143 KB on my lappy.

[qazwsx]

19 GB barely enough. From df -h
/dev/sda5 19G 15G 3,1G 83% /
/dev/sda3 123G 89G 30G 75% /home

Bit boated :-k

[Dr Small]

Running Arch:

[drsmall@darkghost ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7.3G 2.1G 4.9G 30% /
none 442M 0 442M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 38M 9.6M 27M 27% /boot
/dev/sda4 139G 1.2G 131G 1% /home

[-grubby]

nathan@linda:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb3 9.3G 4.4G 4.5G 50% /
/dev/hdb4 27G 11G 15G 42% /home
/dev/hdb1 38G 13G 26G 34% /media/xp

[cardinals_fan]

35 gigs, because I keep a couple virtual machines in there.

[gn2]

1.7 of 6.0gb used on my Xubuntu laptop
2.2 of 15.0gb used on my Xubuntu desktop

[freduardo]

7 GB, which is more than enough for me.

[Bungo Pony]

I've given it a nice happy 30G. Just enough that I should never have to worry about space, but not too much that it's overkill.

[dje]

For me:

dj@dj-laptop ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.7G 3.7G 5.6G 40% /
/dev/sda3 45G 17G 27G 38% /home

[DexterLB]

/ 15GB
/home 150GB

[vishzilla]

/ - used 3G / 10G alloted
I wonder if I should resize the partition

[jolx]

i use 3.9 GB on my root partition and allocated 10

but on my home partition ive used 60GB which was 30 last week but ive downloaded soo much :)

[helliewm]

Being a girl I was hoping for more interesting statistics here :lolflag:

Well it worked you got my attention.:)

[aaaantoine]

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 37G 4.0G 32G 12% /


So... 4 GiB.

I made a 40GB root partition because I didn't know what to expect. I've wanted to change the size, but for some reason, my swap partition is sitting between my root and home partitions, which complicates things. I'll have to back my stuff up, play with a LiveCD, and see what I can do.

[quanumphaze]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 7.8G 5.1G 2.3G 70% /
varrun 501M 224K 501M 1% /var/run
varlock 501M 0 501M 0% /var/lock
procbususb 501M 64K 501M 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 501M 64K 501M 1% /dev
devshm 501M 1.9M 500M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 501M 38M 464M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sda2 23G 17G 4.6G 79% /home

I don't even know what half this /var and stuff is for

Not shown here is the other ~25GB that holds Gutsy and soon to be some other distro.

[ViRMiN]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ihegheeh3
29G 5.1G 24G 18% /
varrun 1.9G 288K 1.9G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.9G 144K 1.9G 1% /dev
devshm 1.9G 208K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.9G 43M 1.9G 3% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sdc5 73G 72G 1.2G 99% /home
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ihegheeh1
190M 44M 137M 25% /boot
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ihegheeh5
233G 225G 8.4G 97% /mnt/volm1
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ihegheeh6
233G 75G 158G 33% /mnt/volv3
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ihegheeh7
250G 20G 231G 8% /mnt/volv2
/dev/sde1 298G 294G 4.6G 99% /media/voli1
/dev/sdg1 115G 114G 1005M 100% /media/volv1
Plenty of unallocated space too :) Good job too, as I need to grow a few partitions...

[ViRMiN]

Awww... just noticed, I've not got all my partitions mounted either... hey-ho!

[fluteflute]

4.5GB (That's everything except /home /media /root and /cdrom )

[ViRMiN]

Only reason I gave a 24GB / partition was for big apps that would sit under /opt. Doesn't really matter though; if I rebuilt, I'd reinstall those apps anyway.

[SyL]

results are quite homogeneous

[Xanatos Craven]

20gb.

[klange]

/me runs another disk usage analyzer scan...

Total: 24.5GB / 120GB (Reads as 109GB total)
/home: 3.9GB (I have a lot of pictures)
/media/sda1: 13.8GB (10.9GB of which is videos)
/media/sda2: 20KB (Unused)
/: 6.8GB (sans /home, lots of libraries and headers)
**/usr/: 5.2GB
**/opt/: 795.5MB
**/var/: 582.6MB
**/lib/: 87.7MB

/ is sda3, and /home is on sda3. I do plan on moving it.

[lswest]

here's mine:

/dev/sda6 16G 4.0G 11G 28% /

[vrangforestillinger]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 47G 5,0G 39G 12% /
/dev/sdb1 459G 235G 201G 54% /home
/dev/sda6 46G 709M 43G 2% /usr/local
/dev/sda1 94G 82G 12G 88% /media/WindowsXP


Made space for future installation of maple, matlab, UT2004 and such on /usr/local. Thinking of decreasing the root size and increasing WinXP-partition (games only, they take alot of space).

[pape]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 5.9G 3.4G 2.6G 58% /


From the responses, it seems that 6-7Gb will cover any 'normal' needs..
Mine is actually an OpenSUSE 10.3