That's one seriously impressive video.

Agreed, he has a couple of 'Mint Videos' with more to come - thanks for that GC.

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OE

Tried DSL in Vbox, it ran but could not install and subsequently save. It bleated about my hardware on probing, not suprised.

Have a G100 Optiplex that might take it some day.

Anyway, your "And how much to allow /var?" question. It occurred to me you could get the answer from your existing Mint installation.

See commands below for my Mint and Debian [Both in VB]
If you have your 'Mail' Logged it will/should give you a higher indication.
You will have to drill down the directory as older logs are commpressed [.gz's].

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Mint:-
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teddybear@ted-VirtualBox ~ $ su
Password:
ted-VirtualBox teddybear # du -sh /var
405M /var
ted-VirtualBox teddybear # du -sh /var/log
4.8M /var/log
ted-VirtualBox teddybear # df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       7.0G  3.3G  3.5G  49% /
udev            494M  4.0K  494M   1% /dev
tmpfs           201M  904K  200M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            501M   80K  501M   1% /run/shm
ted-VirtualBox teddybear #
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Debian:-
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teddybear@oxie:~$ su
Password:
root@oxie:/home/teddybear# du -sh /var
347M /var
root@oxie:/home/teddybear# du -sh /var/log
15M /var/log
root@oxie:/home/teddybear# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             323M  136M  171M  45% /
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                  501M  176K  501M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda9             2.8G  120M  2.6G   5% /home
/dev/sda8             234M  6.1M  216M   3% /tmp
/dev/sda5             2.8G  822M  1.9G  31% /usr
/dev/sda6             1.4G  381M 929M  30% /var
/dev/sr0               50M   50M     0 100% /media/cdrom0
root@oxie:/home/teddybear#
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Oxie...