Persistent Home Directory Size

**STD-User** · 07-28-2003, 01:35 AM

I'm not a complete newbie to Linux, but Knoppix will be the first time I've used a live version.

My question is, what is the minimum size needed for a persistent home directory? I'm currently unable to devote much space for this, but would like to retain my settings whenever I reboot. So, how much do I really need?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

I've searched the site, but I couldn't find the answer.

**aay** · 07-28-2003, 04:13 AM

Considering that until recently people used persistent home primairly on floppys, you should be able to go as small as 1.44 mb, but I suspect you could go much smaller than this since config files don't take up much space.

**STD-User** · 07-28-2003, 04:41 AM

Thanks. That was what I was thinking I would do.

BUT, I have fallen in love with Knoppix and have made room for a full HDD install!

**EdlinUser** · 07-28-2003, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by STD-User

Thanks. That was what I was thinking I would do.

BUT, I have fallen in love with Knoppix and have made room for a full HDD install!

Welcome! Great disto, eh? My HD install is just a copy of the CD files to a partition and make.boot floppy. I've heard the Debian install is a just too cool. Won't know,that's not where I'm going.