From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F831381F3 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 23:59:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3728FE09F8; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 23:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from internet.com.uy (correo.tecnet.com.uy [200.40.123.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88552E09E0 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 23:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from acme7.acmenet (r190-134-45-30.dialup.adsl.anteldata.net.uy [190.134.45.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by correo.tecnet.com.uy (8.14.4/8.14.4/host-001) with ESMTP id r6JNwviN026687 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:59:02 -0300 X-TN_STAT: 25 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:58:59 -0300 From: luis jure To: gentoo-user Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration Message-ID: <20130719205859.7f78a14d@acme7.acmenet> In-Reply-To: <51E9CE42.6080804@gmail.com> References: <20130718182232.5c1301ce@acme7.acmenet> <51E8E30E.20906@gmail.com> <20130719114234.332ff09e@acme7.acmenet> <51E96CBB.4080300@gmail.com> <20130719200018.474e06af@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <51E9C5D2.1040108@gmail.com> <20130719202308.02520045@acme7.acmenet> <51E9CE42.6080804@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (correo.tecnet.com.uy [200.40.123.43]); Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:59:02 -0300 (UYT) X-Archives-Salt: 2a59467d-ed68-458b-8d39-61b9262b9dd7 X-Archives-Hash: c452fda51081bdec4bcc3390b0c53ccb on 2013-07-19 at 18:39 Dale wrote: > Ahh, that makes sense. Thing is, I can't get rid of family photos or my > videos. Nope, just ain't happening. yeah, the same here... my 2Tb HD was almost full, so i bought a new 4Tb disk. and it's a nice feeling having all that space free... > I think I could get my OS on a 30Gb SSD with no problem and plenty of > breathing room. i had a 30Tb partition for my system in my old HDD, and the breathing space wasn't quite "plenty". often i found myself with less than the 6Gb free required by libreoffice to compile, and i had to clean up a bit. other than that yes, 30Gb is more than enough. in this new SSD i just installed i made a partition of 40Gb for / .