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 1F9pvm-00038a-WD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:40:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GKbEF4021578; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:37:14 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GKP53Q025586 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:25:05 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id B4A651F7D4E for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:25:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A191F61F5 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:24:25 +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 11314180 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:24:25 +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 21:24:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <7ae6f8f0602160419w67142523p296a88b3944ce180@mail.gmail.com> <43F4BA91.6050304@mid.email-server.info> <20060216201109.31ac5dbf@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060216201109.31ac5dbf@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> 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-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602162124.24627.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 75088aed-1bd2-429d-a2a0-47f7a220c390 X-Archives-Hash: f85ec000f2f5625b9037df4fde75bd6f On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:46:57 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > If partition A > > > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, > > > > 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. > > > > you have to shrink B's > > > filesystem before you can add space to A. That's time consuming, > > > especially if B uses XFS. > > > > 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. at least one who went to the same hell... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list