From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRzaV-0003Aa-EO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:14:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8306fhQ028639; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:06:41 GMT Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l82NvNkE010807 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:57:23 GMT 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 mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B2E1ABA1D for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:57:22 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:57:17 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM* Message-ID: <20070903005717.27f14f6b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070902232047.GA29278@waltdnes.org> References: <20070902143233.GA9496@waltdnes.org> <20070902201502.4e612739@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200709022201.00036.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <20070902232047.GA29278@waltdnes.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0cvs189 (GTK+ 2.10.14; 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_9lV/y9UdJ+NH2AmJhjeeeyG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 2b0e05e5-172c-4ea6-894b-b23870f56f3c X-Archives-Hash: ad6f27266216f3d42a40e320d4807734 --Sig_9lV/y9UdJ+NH2AmJhjeeeyG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Walter Dnes, > This setup is for a desktop PC that has "a user" not "a bunch of > users". I am *NOT* running a server with a bunch of users. If I was, > I'd be using quotas to prevent the problem described above. It only takes one user to have a runaway process, or even just one that uses more space than you expected, that fills /home. there are good reasons for separating user and system filesystems. > d) more partitions means more things to go wrong More partitions mean that when things go wrong, the effects are limited. Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves everything you want to, and more, without the compromises. > > you can't use different filesystems for different purposes, etc. =20 >=20 > You mean like ext2fs for a small rarely-written-to partition and > reiserfs for a gigantic partition with lots of files? How about ReiserFS for a general purpose partition or one that has a lot of small files and XFS for a partition that has a small number of very large files (XFS's performance is much better than Reiser's with multi-gigabyte files). How about a separate partition for large temporary files (think video processing and DVD authoring) so it doesn't fill up your home or system directories. There are many reasons to want to keep data on a separate filesystem, which LVM achieves but your approach does not permit. And what happens with 500GB is no longer enough and you want to add more space. How do you resize your "partitions" to use space on the second disk? --=20 Neil Bothwick There's more to life than sex, beer and computers. Not a lot more admittedly... --Sig_9lV/y9UdJ+NH2AmJhjeeeyG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG203hum4al0N1GQMRAqaEAKC1i8gtZwWjlZoHqYpQgOOozzk+gwCgx22J 4vvY9X++wW7dCKyPJvUUJCI= =zEif -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_9lV/y9UdJ+NH2AmJhjeeeyG-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list