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Read the manpage for usage(8).  Section 5, paragraph 5: "For the root partition
you are advised to use 1440Kb exactly.  ... it is advisable to never let it
outgrow a floppy."

bigbinc wrote:

> For some strange reason I couldn't write the '/' root partition of my drive.
> I had a gig of space, and guess what all of that was mostly devoted
> to /usr, and 1.44Mb was devoted to '/' root directory.

