On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:47:01 +0000 (UTC),
Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
> Theodore Heise wrote:
>
>> Does this seem like a reasonable strategy?
>
> Yes it's reasonable. In particular, you seem to have thought
> about it and decided there are reasons to separate some parts of
> the system from the rest, while not separating others.

> Thinking about it, and making the decisions based on the
> specific needs of your own system(s). Is the most important
> part of this, though. It doesn't matter nearly as much if you
> do things the way I would do them or Floyd would do them, as it
> does whether what you implement will work for you in the long
> term.

Thanks very much, Sylvain. Your point about the importance of me
thinking it through for my own needs is well taken, but I also
appreciate having a sanity check from the experienced folks here.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise <theo@heise.nu> Bloomington, IN, USA

Theodore Heise wrote:

> Your point about the importance of me thinking it through for my own
> needs is well taken, but I also appreciate having a sanity check from
> the experienced folks here.

I agree on that count. I just tend to get concerned when people respond
to such requests with generalized statements of "the right way to do it"
without having all of the details about your systems that only you are in
a position to consider. This is why I make a point of disclaiming in my
responses that "this is how I setup my own systems" without (hopefully)
ever saying that it's "the" right way. It's certainly what works for me,
and I try and point out the considerations which lead me to doing things
that way, but I wouldn't want to try and tell you that you should do
things the same way without at least considering whether or not it would
be suitable in your environment.

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On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:45:04 -0500,
Theodore Heise <theo@heise.nu> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:16:58 -0800,
> Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@apaflo.com> wrote:
>> Theodore Heise <theo@heise.nu> wrote:
>
>>>partition mount point use GB
>>>--------- ----------- ---------- --
>>>/dev/hda7 /usr/local extra pkgs 2
>>
>> Is that big enough?
>
> I think so. I don't add a whole lot of packages, so far it's just
> been SpamAssassin, UW imap, logwatch, ddclient, and leafnode.

Okay, now I'm thinking I'll be wanting to install OpenOffice and
maybe some other desktop type packages. How much disk space would
I need for OO?

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Theodore (Ted) Heise <theo@heise.nu> Bloomington, IN, USA

Theodore Heise <theo@heise.nu> wrote:
> Okay, now I'm thinking I'll be wanting to install OpenOffice and maybe
> some other desktop type packages. How much disk space would I need for
> OO?

I have installed OpenOffice 1.1.1 in Slackware 9.1 and it needed about 200
MB of disk space. If you are going to install a newer version I would
guess that it needs a little more.

regards Henrik
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On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:30:09 +0200,
Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
>
> I have installed OpenOffice 1.1.1 in Slackware 9.1 and it needed
> about 200 MB of disk space. If you are going to install a newer
> version I would guess that it needs a little more.

Thanks Henrik. I'm thinking I may bump the size of the /usr/local
partition up a bit after all. I've got room to spare on some of
the other partitions, so it seems prudent.

Floyd, thanks again for the suggestions.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise <theo@heise.nu> Bloomington, IN, USA

On 2005-10-01, Theodore Heise <theo@heise.nu> wrote:

> Okay, now I'm thinking I'll be wanting to install OpenOffice and
> maybe some other desktop type packages. How much disk space would
> I need for OO?

My /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/ directory is 215455 blocks of 1024 bytes.

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