Are these good partition sizes?

[happy cricket]

10 gigs for /
8 gigs for /home
1 gig for swap
?  (it's a 20 gig hard drive, old machine)


I just ran the install utility and took all the defaults.   Any info is appreciated. 

[ThirdOfSix]

happy cricket,

You have not said what you installed or how you intend to use it.

More importantly, is this your only drive?

Does it have USB boot capability and do you have any USB external drives?

This is one of the few times when I would seriously consider not having separate / and /home partitions. But, this really depends on what your situation is.

[T6]

yes it sounds good to me but i could suggest not to use a /home partition

it will leave more flexibility in this limited space situation

pclinux installation with the basic apps is around 3 to 4 gbs(office, many media players, image editors)

my installation and 6 gbs on home is just 13 gbs, that includes e17, gnome, kde4 and lots of apps more

about the swap, how much ram do you have?

[happy cricket]

Usinga "rescued" computer that was taken out of circulation where I work, I have installed the PCLOS '09 KDE Desktop image from the main website.  This will basically be a "get on the web and use it" machine.  I did try one of the smaller versions, but found it didn't play well with this hardware for some reason.

This is the only drive on the box, with 20 gigs of storage.  I dont have any USB external drives.  1 gig of ram.

If I were to eliminate /home, can I do that from within the installation, or will I need to reinstall?

[T6]

1 gb of ram and 1 gb of swap sounds good enough for me for every task except big images edition(100 mb of size  ) or remasterme(never did a remasterme)

about removing /home, i honestly don't know, maybe it can't be done?

if you haven't done alot in that machine a reinstall should be very fast and simple, if the cpu is fast in 15 minutes all should be in the same state it is now(except for updates if you applied them)

[Bald Brick]

If I were to eliminate /home, can I do that from within the installation, or will I need to reinstall?

Yes, of course you can, but reinstalling may well be faster.

You'd just have to copy your present /home to a temporary directory (preferably using rsync so as to retain the ownerships and permissions), edit /etc/fstab so that the system doesn't try to mount your present /home partition the next time you boot, log in as root (if you aren't), remove your present /home, rename the temporary directory you just created to /home, start a partitioning program, remove what used to be your /home partition (not your newly created directory), resize your root partition so as to utilize the empty space that used to be /home, reboot.

Did I forget something? Probably. Reinstalling is easier.

[T6]

 

[happy cricket]

I've reinstalled (I'm all about easy :p) and I'm in like Flynn!  Thanks for the advice everyone - I really appreciate it. 

[T6]