Linux on netbooks

[david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org (David Kramer)]

Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:58:11PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
>> The one last thing I would love feedback on is hard drive space.  Most
>> of these units come with 160GB hard drives.  I am ASSUMING this would be
>> cramped with both Win 7 Starter (plus Office, Firefox, etc and maybe a
>> ripped movie or two) and Ubuntu Netbook Remix (plus OO, Firefox, and
>> java/eclipse).  There are SOME 250GB units out there, but that really
>> limits my choices.  Do you think 160GB would be enough, or should I
>> choose a 250GB model?
> 
> My current home desktop has a 160GB drive:
> 
> /dev/sda3              46G  8.5G   36G  20% /
> /dev/sda1             942M   54M  889M   6% /boot
> /dev/sda4              99G   54G   40G  58% /home

You know, I've been so stressed out from job hunting and choosing the
phone and the netbook and the upcoming trip, that I didn't think of
looking at my very own laptop, which has dual boot with Ubuntu (with
massive number of packages) and Vista (certainly bigger than Win7
Starter).  All on a 160GB hard drive.  It will even fit Emacs!

Thank you for the clue-by-four.  I need to relax.