From: mper@uipsuxb.ps.uiuc.edu (Michael Pereckas) Subject: Re: How big a partition? Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 21:37:17 GMT
twt@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom W. Tomlinson) writes:
>I am upgrading my hard disc drive to 200MB on Monday.
>I would appreciate advice on how big a partition to
>leave free for Linux. I would eventually like to use
>it with GhostScript or some (La)Tex variant. Would
>about 40MB be okay?
As much as posible :-)
Let's see. On my system:
ghostscript ~3.75 MB
TeX fonts, formats, macros almost 5MB
Metafont macros, bases 1.5 MB
{vir,ini}{tex,mf} 1 MB
I have about 48 MB on my /usr partition, which includes TeX/LaTeX,
Ghostscript, groff, GNU Emacs with lots of elisp and info files, gcc
2.11, fortune, gnuplot, the kernel sources, and a great deal of random
stuff. I have about 2 MB in my root partition, which, in addition to
the standard stuff on the root image, has the shared libs and bash. I
have another partition containing about 15 MB of text files, almost
none of which have anything in particular to do with Linux, and which
I moved to a Linux partition from DOS because I almost never use DOS
anymore.
Your mileage will vary. Probably by a lot.
Michael Pereckas