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 1F9lbn-0001Qe-B2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:03:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GFxxUF018945; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:59:59 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GFaf8H006248 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:36:41 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EE7A203CBE for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:36:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 329AD203CB6 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:36:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 11304935 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:36:41 +0100 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:36:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602161519.24278.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <30754.1140101924@www076.gmx.net> <200602161014.41303.flacycads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200602161014.41303.flacycads@cox.net> 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: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602161636.40938.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 241c5259-1131-4e63-b334-261c106b6ed6 X-Archives-Hash: 0319dfdd2d9caf9dc983a427ec566245 On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:14, Robert Crawford wrote: > The main reason for putting /var, /tmp, and portage on their own > partitions is to minimize fragmentation on /, especially with a source > distro like Gentoo. And yes, Linux does fragment and does require > attention, especially with reiserfs, where the only solution is to > dump/format/restore. dump/restore does not work anymore. for years. tar/mkfs/tar is the right way to do backups/restores. Plus, you can keep fragmentation down, if you let enough space free. With lots of small partitions, the partitions will always almost filled up, which leads to more fragmentation. Also, the more partitions, the more the heads have to move around. And we all know, that this decreases total lifetime. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list