how large should root partition be

[john5898]

ya

[Pumalite]

10-15 gb

[rpm13]

Ive been running with root at 700M and boot at 100M
(ie 0.7G and 0.1G).
That of course implies that you have /usr /var and /home (at the least) separated. These could go as low as
/usr: 2G
/var: 1.5G
/home: whatever!

But with this arrangement ubuntu had trouble upgrading: update-manager downloads into /boot and then fails if theres not enough space -- a stupid choice if you ask me. But if /boot is merged with root (/) at about 1G that should be fine.

[jerome1232]

As rpm is kinda getting to that all depends on your partitioning scheme,

if you partition out /home, /var, /boot, /usr then root could be around 100 - 200 MB

/var; /usr; and /home seem to be the big space eaters.

If you go the common method of having a / and a /home then
/ 12-20 GB depending on how many programs you install (programs usually go to /usr)
/home The rest of the drive (this is implying that you keep all of you multemedia here)


In my case I have

/ 15 GB
/boot 2 GB
/home 15 GB
/mnt/data The rest of the Drive

[Sef]

Ubuntu recommends 8 - 10 GB with a separate home parition.

[Pumalite]

I agree. Root, home and swap should do it.

[Vivaldi Gloria]

I prefer

/ - 15GB
swap - your ram x 1-2
storage partition - rest

I mount the storage partition in /mnt/mountpoint and put a symlink in home or where ever I want. I prefer a storage partition over a /home partition because I like having new config files when I install a new system.