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 1F9per-0007V1-T1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:23:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GKLiKk019555; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:21:44 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 k1GKBDhP003583 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:11:13 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by rutherford.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1F9pT6-0000EW-PN for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:11:12 +0000 Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC14E141F965 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:11:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:11:09 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? Message-ID: <20060216201109.31ac5dbf@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43F4BA91.6050304@mid.email-server.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> <20060216161714.71f319da@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <43F4BA91.6050304@mid.email-server.info> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; powerpc-unknown-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_5O43ZGoQ9jUQ=gL/SJy3Sld"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Rutherford-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: fb2675d3-23f6-4c2d-aa3e-90ac8391d338 X-Archives-Hash: 3eb1dbff14b2a933ee3c2ff00e06fefe --Sig_5O43ZGoQ9jUQ=gL/SJy3Sld Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > If partition A > > runs out of space while partition B has plenty,=20 >=20 > Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. Of course, but if your needs change, that's the situation you find yourself in, as I did recently. >=20 > > you have to shrink B's > > filesystem before you can add space to A. That's time consuming, > > especially if B uses XFS. >=20 > What's so special about XFS? The fact that there's no shrinker? Yes, so a matter of seconds turns into the time it takes to backup, repartition and restore, which can take a while if the partition is tens of GB and you have no space elsewhere for the backup. I've used complex partition layouts in the past and have found that, as with most things, KISS is the best approach. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 10: Computer security --Sig_5O43ZGoQ9jUQ=gL/SJy3Sld 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) iD8DBQFD9Nxdum4al0N1GQMRAju7AKCRyNtADH9bbIAwSdnyBT8aHxJQwACghVyR dWN0LRK20ULgcZx3OJGI8J0= =fVSx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_5O43ZGoQ9jUQ=gL/SJy3Sld-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list