Sunday, September 09, 2018

Parrot GNU/Linux (Parrot-security-4.3_amd64) Partition Layout Plan

According to my rule of thumb, to be able to successfully install Parrot GNU/Linux (Parrot-security-4.1_amd64) on either physical machine or virtual machine, you need, at least, 20 GiB of disk space. To have more room for further installation of extra applications, I recommend to reserve 39 GiB disk space for its installation based on 2 GiB swap space, and the following disk partition layout plan should be adopted:

File System
File System Type
Size
/
ext4
28 GiB
/boot
ext4
512 MiB
/home
ext4
512 MiB
swap
swap
2 GiB
/var
ext4
6 GiB
/tmp
ext4
2 GiB

At least / needs 12 GiB if you adopt to have only root partition (/), and the swap. It is up on you to plan more disk space rather than taking the above figures in the table into your consideration.

Also by so doing, my purpose is to initially have a disk space occupancy rate less than 50% for each file system (disk partition)

An example of disk usage after the OS installation

Tuesday, February 06, 2018

How To Change Default LANG on Kali Desktop Environment

As a root, you can edit /root/.dmrc and make a change on the parameter Language under [Desktop] to, for example, en_US.utf8

Finally it should look like:

Language=en_US.utf8

Prior to this, you may also need to generate the locale en_US.UTF-8 using below command as a root:

dpkg-reconfigure locales