[Wine] Wubi + Wine ??????

[Martin Gregorie]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 19:48 -0500, DaVince wrote:
> Are you sure about this? A clean install of Xubuntu weighs in at less
> than 2GB, and I don't think the difference in sizes is THAT wide
> between Ubuntu and Xubuntu...
> 
Here are some Fedora numbers for comparison:

My Fedora 8 system (full C/Java development, Wine, Apache, DNS,
PostgresQL, Postfix mail system, Open Office). /home holds all my code
sources, text+pics for 4 websites, a moderate audiovisual collection
plus a 2GB database) has 512 MB RAM and a 40 GB disk partitioned as
follows:
$ df -m
Filesystem      1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6            1938       367      1471  20% /
/dev/sda7            1938       353      1486  20% /var
/dev/sda3           14529      9766      4013  71% /home
/dev/sda2           14529      4863      8916  36% /usr
/dev/sda1             251        23       216  10% /boot/
tmpfs                 251         0       251   0% /dev/shm
swap                 2000
                              =====
                              15579 MB

My Fedora 10 laptop (full Java/C development, Open Office, collection of
audip and image files) has 1GFB RAM and a 160 GB disk partitioned as
follows: 
$ df -m
Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7                 1970       411      1459  22% /
/dev/sda2                19686      4324     14363  24% /usr
/dev/sda8                84609      5092     75219   7% /home
/dev/sda5                 1970        36      1835   2% /tmp
/dev/sda6                 1970       486      1384  26% /var
/dev/sda1                  494       163       305  35% /boot
tmpfs                      501         2       500   1% /dev/shm
swap                      2000
                                   =====
                                   10514 MB

The only downside found in a year's operation is that sda7 (/) and sda5
(/tmp) are too small to permit an automatic Fedora 10 -> 11 upgrade. 


In general I use a lot of partitions in order to prevent any part of the
system suddenly chewing up all the disk, but IMO you can get away with
three partitions (/, swap and /home). Yes, it means a custom install but
I think its worth doing. The benefit is that you can keep everything
in /home through a complete clean reinstall if you don't reformat that
partition. After the reinstall you have to set up your private users and
groups exactly the same as they were before (i.e. the user and group IDs
*must* match those already on the contents of /home, but that's easy
enough - using "ls -l" before the users and groups have been set up
shows the uids and gids. In summary, then, for a current distro you need
to allow for the following data space:

System and programs         6 GB
Swap space                  2 GB (I like twice RAM for swap space)
Personal data - at least    5 GB (as a separate partition)

IOW, if the disk is 40 GB or bigger, set the disk partition sizes up as:

System and programs        15 GB
Swap                       RAM * 2
Personal data              everything else.

HTH

Martin