From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9jZI-00074r-9Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:53:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GDq8dd015366; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:52:08 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GDlvW0016079 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:47:57 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1F9jUC-0000fj-Pj for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:47:56 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7DA14248AE for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:47:47 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:47:44 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? Message-ID: <20060216134744.4438d27e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43F478C4.9010800@mid.message-center.info> References: <7ae6f8f0602160419w67142523p296a88b3944ce180@mail.gmail.com> <20060216124229.3e47969f@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <7ae6f8f0602160450i3d0b3973x437e82ff45c8606e@mail.gmail.com> <7ae6f8f0602160451r4c7a61bp76981c5963c06209@mail.gmail.com> <43F478C4.9010800@mid.message-center.info> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_n9uN/zMcMWs5x7S5+rz7t60"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 22609c41-88d3-4392-9a84-becd89f809d2 X-Archives-Hash: 2ec1acc6608b89d52b10cb426118d436 --Sig_n9uN/zMcMWs5x7S5+rz7t60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create > filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var > and / (of course). This way you're more flexible > and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running > out of space on /). But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt while one of the others has plenty free. I prefer to have these three on the same partition for a desktop, but separate from /. I use the bind option to mount /var and /opt on /usr/var and /usr/opt $ grep bind /etc/fstab /usr/var /var auto bind 0 0 /usr/opt /opt auto bind 0 0 --=20 Neil Bothwick After two weeks of dieting, all I lost was two weeks. --Sig_n9uN/zMcMWs5x7S5+rz7t60 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD9IKEum4al0N1GQMRAjO9AJ4mSRXm0wHZQT3lA9rXllFTIUnXPwCgzS/h VEJbrUBbLwUR9CLqhivt/WE= =+d7g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_n9uN/zMcMWs5x7S5+rz7t60-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list