On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:50:54PM -0600, mitch@mdmiller.com wrote: > Pardon me for being a neophyte here, but what else goes on the root > partition which takes any significant or dynamic amount of space? Isn't > the root just a place to put all the top level directories, the contents > of which are typically all on another partition anyway? /bin, /sbin and /lib can get quite large; /etc can also get a little fat. I like to keep them (and /boot) on the root partition, I guess because they are all critical for booting and seldom altered. Regards, Mark.