fedora installation

Dan Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Thu Oct 30 17:43:40 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 11:37 -0400, Jerry Ro wrote:
>   
>> hello all,
>>
>> I am interested in installing fedora on a laptop x61t (it is, to the
>> best of my understanding, a 64bit machine.)
>>
>> a few questions I have:
>>
>> * should 60-80 GB be reasonable for full installation of fedora?
>>     
>
> The full system itself will use under 10GB. How much else you need
> depends on what you're doing with it.
>
> [snip!]
>
> poc
>   
As poc says, it depends on what you want to do with it. For me, all updates
were chosen: games, development, X11, X-window managers, sendmail, dns,
and *many* services and with exception to virtual machines and 
clustering, plus
livna non-free for music/video repos, I total aprox 66GB used space, so 
for all of
my Fedora/Ubuntu systems, I carve out approx, 75-100GB for my root 
partitions.
But this is probably extreme for a normal user.  I am sure if I went 
after all in livna
with MythTV and other apps, it would require more space, but then you 
can get
another big drive for that or make sure you get the biggest drive 
available for your
type of system (some laptops may only get one drive unless you plan to 
carry around
a USB drive) esp. if you want an archive of music/video files.

But your mileage may vary and it depends on what you want. If no X11/gui 
system
then root filesystem can have a very small footprint.

FWIW,
Dan




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