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 1F9kVb-0004gQ-L8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:53:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GEpU1S000480; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:51:30 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 k1GEjmQT024571 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:45:48 GMT Received: from USMITRY-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.137.52]) by gateway1.delphi.com (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CIZ45046; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:45:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from USMITRY-MX02.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.137.43]) by USMITRY-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:45:52 -0500 Received: from DEWUP-MX02.Europe.DelphiAuto.net ([130.171.200.162]) by USMITRY-MX02.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:45:44 -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 15:45:16 +0100 Received: from s08nfs.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (s08nfs [206.122.137.180]) by dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C93B31 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:45:16 +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 D8C4A2643 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:45:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <43F48FFB.3020804@mid.message-center.info> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:45:15 +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> <7ae6f8f0602160451r4c7a61bp76981c5963c06209@mail.gmail.com> <43F478C4.9010800@mid.message-center.info> <200602161519.24278.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200602161519.24278.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2006 14:45:16.0281 (UTC) FILETIME=[99AF0690:01C63307] X-Archives-Salt: a2023a29-f316-4c73-bebf-d1468dfbc42f X-Archives-Hash: 5d20ce9d667315dc0811011cba6a03ca Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Izar Ilun wrote: >> > I say that, It'll be just: >> > - /boot >> > - swap >> > - /home >> > - / (all the rest) >> >> 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 /). > > and he wastes a lot of space, No, he doesn't. Where does he waste space? Also, to use your argument - we're no longer in the age where 10gb harddrives are high end. > makes boot a lot longer Not really. > and increases head > movement. > > One big / (like 40 or 80GB) will be enough Yes, and it's obviously the worst solution. How do you mount /tmp noexec? How do you mount /usr read-only? > With that sizes, it is nearly impossible to fill / completly up. And it's impossible to have some flexibility. > To put everything on its own partition was good, when harddisks were 2gb-10gb > big. And it's still good today. > But today it is just a waste of space and time. No, it's absolutely not. Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #126: it has Intel Inside -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list