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 1F9m6c-0006gy-Lp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:35:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GGVfc5000075; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:31:41 GMT Received: from rutherford.zen.co.uk (rutherford.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GGHIno008041 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:17:18 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by rutherford.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F9loj-0007zm-U8 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:17:18 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304281420D3B for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:17:15 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:17:14 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? Message-ID: <20060216161714.71f319da@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43F48E86.2080702@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> <20060216134744.4438d27e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <43F48E86.2080702@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__VlRy6K+QQTY0ve4U_WqHO_; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Rutherford-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 88da100e-5e99-4f83-8779-3f753436ed54 X-Archives-Hash: 77fa3a84df924f0ff4cde0c8b30893d8 --Sig__VlRy6K+QQTY0ve4U_WqHO_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:02 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt > > while >=20 > Not really. And even if so - who cares? Make the > fs larger, and you're set. Also, if those fs > run out of space, it's not a DoS. No, but it means you have to stop what you are doing to re-organise and resize your partitions. > > one of the others has plenty free. >=20 > Well, no, since it's also bad advice to have one with > plenty free :) Could you point me in the direction of the program that magically tells you how much space you'll need for each directory in a year's time :) > > I prefer to have these three on the > > same partition for a desktop, >=20 > I don't. Everything on its own filesystem. I mean, > why not? Resizing, and especially extending, is > so very easy. Extending is easy, but shrinking is not so easy or quick. If partition A runs out of space while partition B has plenty, you have to shrink B's filesystem before you can add space to A. That's time consuming, especially if B uses XFS. Just because a directory existing in /, it doesn't have to be on a separate filesystem. Use whatever works for your needs, but be sensible, too many partitions is almost as bad as too few, and creates extra work. --=20 Neil Bothwick In the begining, there was nothing. --Sig__VlRy6K+QQTY0ve4U_WqHO_ 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) iD8DBQFD9KWKum4al0N1GQMRAroqAKDOMqoxSlv/3LzseY/hNaWMTCsW3QCeL94H oCVMw0XyFit7TU1/6I/j6OQ= =lbSL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig__VlRy6K+QQTY0ve4U_WqHO_-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list