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 1FA2A5-0004uN-TY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:44:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1H9gJNX022692; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:42:19 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 k1H9cAcs011656 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:38:10 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FA241-0001zH-16 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:38:09 +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 7EA3F141F7AE for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:38:04 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:38:00 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? Message-ID: <20060217093800.746b6fda@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200602161959.44240.krakrjak@volumehost.net> References: <7ae6f8f0602160419w67142523p296a88b3944ce180@mail.gmail.com> <43F478C4.9010800@mid.message-center.info> <20060216134744.4438d27e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200602161959.44240.krakrjak@volumehost.net> 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_h.Zg2ySg+1g8z81phzNcgT4; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 016b3d91-2db9-471a-bccd-457260b6f744 X-Archives-Hash: 90f2c4137691282250a99341e4586f66 --Sig_h.Zg2ySg+1g8z81phzNcgT4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:59:44 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: > > 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 > Good god man! This is about as kludgy as they come. Sure it gets the > job done, but this is EXACTLY what LVM was invented for. This is not about partitions but filesystems. > Partitions are hard (relatively) to resize. However, logical volumes > are not. You can increase them when they are full, or reduce their size > when you need to distribute disk space to other places. LVs are dead easy to resize, reducing the size of a filesystem is not always that easy, or even possible. > Also consider the case where you completely fill up your 200GB drive. > What then? Buy a new drive and migrate data from /home or /usr to the > new disk and mount that, then reclaim the partition for some other fs > etc. You have the migration of data and the inflexibility of > partitions to resize. If you use LVM in the same case you just add the > new disk to your volume group increase any logical volumes that are in > need of more space and resize the filesystem. I am using LVM, where did I say I wasn't? If I run out of space and add a new disk, I can easily add a new physical volume to the volume group and resize the partitions. How many directories I keep on each partition has absolutely nothing to do with this. I want to have / on a small partition, so everything else can go on RAID and LVM, but why should that force me to have separate filesystems for /usr, /var and /opt if I don't want them? --=20 Neil Bothwick I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message... --Sig_h.Zg2ySg+1g8z81phzNcgT4 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) iD8DBQFD9Zl7um4al0N1GQMRAvKyAKCwJIJoxOSCvihMUQ+zKmt1lnC6/wCbBlf0 gDD4PqQUJ03bSIvBWFRKEgc= =ADIv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_h.Zg2ySg+1g8z81phzNcgT4-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list