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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HjnDN-0005tL-Vz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 02:08:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4426tM0001550; Fri, 4 May 2007 02:06:55 GMT Received: from mailout1.igs.net (mailout1.igs.net [216.58.97.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4422QrC028837 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 02:02:27 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i209-195-90-74.cia.com [209.195.90.74]) by mailout1.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DA285D92 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 16:53:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 3 May 2007 22:02:22 -0400 From: waltdnes@waltdnes.org Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 22:02:21 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage Message-ID: <20070504020221.GA18552@waltdnes.org> References: <49bf44f10704260759g214dbb00o40c674ca7167cdd2@mail.gmail.com> <4630E536.3040108@fire-eyes.org> <1433284.sqkpgDReDL@m-id.message-center.info> <200704270058.51635.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <463A436E.8060506@gmail.com> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <463A436E.8060506@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: c4e8cc61-259b-4aa7-b087-47a7c462b6ec X-Archives-Hash: 79acf08a0d74739bd30b8ea074004bde On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:17:50PM +0200, Cs??nyi Andr??s wrote Another thing you can do is use fewer partitions. Each partition requires a safety margin. The fewer partitions you have, the less wasted space for safety margins. Here is my setup... [m450][waltdnes][~] df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1208692 110608 1048928 10% / udev 62476 2640 59836 5% /dev /dev/hda6 37815936 19929656 16349504 55% /home shm 62476 0 62476 0% /dev/shm I could shave another 900 megabytes off / and still have plenty of room. I accomplish this by moving /tmp /usr and /var to the /home partition. The system (/bin and /sbin) is constant. /tmp is where you can put large temporary files. /usr has portage and /usr/bin. /var has the logfiles. -- Walter Dnes In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list