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 1F9kNZ-0007Y7-UA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:45:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GEhbCf010387; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:43:37 GMT Received: from gateway1.delphi.com (gateway1.delphi.com [12.47.224.16]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GEd4DV008844 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:39:05 GMT Received: from USMITRY-MX04.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.137.56]) by gateway1.delphi.com (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CIZ38961; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:39:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from USMITRY-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.137.44]) by USMITRY-MX04.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:39:00 -0500 Received: from DEWUP-MX02.Europe.DelphiAuto.net ([130.171.200.162]) by USMITRY-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:39:04 -0500 Received: from dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net ([10.233.7.145]) by DEWUP-MX02.Europe.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:03 +0100 Received: from s08nfs.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (s08nfs [206.122.137.180]) by dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B01972 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.233.7.145] (dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net [10.233.7.145]) by s08nfs.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693C12643 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:02 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <43F48E86.2080702@mid.message-center.info> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:02 +0100 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060104 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? References: <7ae6f8f0602160419w67142523p296a88b3944ce180@mail.gmail.com> <20060216124229.3e47969f@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <7ae6f8f0602160450i3d0b3973x437e82ff45c8606e@mail.gmail.com> <7ae6f8f0602160451r4c7a61bp76981c5963c06209@mail.gmail.com> <43F478C4.9010800@mid.message-center.info> <20060216134744.4438d27e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060216134744.4438d27e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2006 14:39:03.0094 (UTC) FILETIME=[BB3F3560:01C63306] X-Archives-Salt: 122f3f1c-0268-420d-9d74-26fe4866b3cf X-Archives-Hash: f89f06814b34c4fc0b3700a060129df3 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create >> filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var >> and / (of course). This way you're more flexible >> and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running >> out of space on /). > > But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt while Not really. And even if so - who cares? Make the fs larger, and you're set. Also, if those fs run out of space, it's not a DoS. > one of the others has plenty free. Well, no, since it's also bad advice to have one with plenty free :) > I prefer to have these three on the > same partition for a desktop, I don't. Everything on its own filesystem. I mean, why not? Resizing, and especially extending, is so very easy. Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #126: it has Intel Inside -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list