thanks for that I'm downloading -----Original Message----- From: John R Pierce Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 3:21 PM he cent os now and going to install it on a usb would like the desktop and athe server mike To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] installing Centos Question On 6/22/2015 10:14 PM, michael wright wrote: > Hi just partition my harddrive to 2GB was not sure how many Mb or Gb > centos runs can someone help me please that’s all I need to know mike it depends entirely on what you install. my server installs typically have a / of around 3GB used, I generally allocated a 20-40GB / partition. /home is however large your users are. if you run databases or webservers, those can be as big as you need them to be. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/c7test1-root 50G 2.8G 48G 6% / /dev/mapper/c7test1-home 76G 5.8G 70G 8% /home /dev/sda1 497M 264M 234M 54% /boot but tthis is a server, there's no desktop stuff at all. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos