How to installl fedora with put root being so big

[bradsha]

Hey guys i was using fedora for a bit. But i had to move back to ubuntu casue the root part of the hardrive. Of fedora was almost 40 gigs yet on the fedora site its only 10 .i used the dvd im not sure if thats a difference. i try ed editing how much root wood taken the installer but it still took 40 gigs is there any way to fix this ?

[stoat]

Fedora certainly doesn't require such a large root partition. This Fedora 13 system I'm using now is using 5.3 GB.

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             8.2G  5.3G  2.5G  68% /
tmpfs                 249M     0  249M   0% /dev/shm

When you next install Fedora, try the partitioning option "Create custom layout". In the disk druid which appears next, you can create a root partition of any size you want.

[bradsha]

What do you think wood be a good size for the root ?

[skolnick]

it all depends on the usage you will give to the pc. It's not the same for a server than a desktop or workstation.

Regards.

[stoat]

See "7.20.5. Recommended Partitioning Scheme" in the Fedora 13 Installation Guide. It says 5 GB is the minimum root partition size for a default installation. Go up from there depending on what you are going to install or store there.

[bradsha]

Does the dvd install make the root heaver then the cd ?

[stoat]

The LiveCD installs a smaller system. It has to fit on a single CD. The CD set uses the first two CDs to install the same default system as the DVD which is larger than the system installed by the LiveCD. But that doesn't explain the 40 GB root partition. That is more likely explained by choosing one of the default partitioning options which will use the entire disk or replace an existing Linux or use existing free space. Each of those Anaconda partitioning options that install the default partition layout will do exactly what their descriptions say they will do.