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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Size of opt partition for kde
From:       Teodor Romeo Mihai <teddy () piercom ! ie>
Date:       1999-02-18 18:16:22
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"Aaron W." wrote:
> 
> >Aaron W. wrote:
> >>
> >>    I am going to install Mandrake Linux 5.2 on my system and have a
> >> partitioning ?. I normally have a / and /usr partition for my system but
> >> kde wants a opt partition also. I am doing a new install and would like to
> >> know what a good size for the opt partition would be. Is kde the only thing
> >> that will get put in it? I have about 1200megs that I use for Linux (moving
> >> from RH5.0).
> >> Thanks
> >
> >My current KDE installation takes about 50 Megs... what I've done,
> >however, is created a softlink from /opt/kde to /usr/local/kde
> >so that I wouldn't need a seperate partition.
> >
> >// Sean
> 
>  I thought of that but the disk is blank now and I am creating the
> partitions in the install with druid so I wont have a chance to make a
> link. On another not I noticed that disk druid can see my fat32 partition
> for Win95 in this version 5.2 and 5.0 could not.
> 
> Aaron Winters
> Electronic Imaging Manager
> Garner Printing
> http://camalott.com/~garner
> 

Sure you can create links, no matter how partitions are mounted within
the filesystem, at any time... I guess you're new to linux :)


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