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 1F9laQ-0000Zm-GH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:02:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GFue1Z005602; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:56:40 GMT Received: from gateway2.delphi.com (gateway2.delphi.com [12.47.224.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GFXU0A017478 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:33:30 GMT Received: from USMITRY-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.137.52]) by gateway2.delphi.com (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id BVR38225; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:33:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.199]) by USMITRY-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:33:35 -0500 Received: from DEWUP-MX02.Europe.DelphiAuto.net ([130.171.200.162]) by USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:33:27 -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 16:33:25 +0100 Received: from s08nfs.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (s08nfs [206.122.137.180]) by dewup-ww02.dewup.europe.delphiauto.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF777F5 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:33:25 +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 995B625C8 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:33:24 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <43F49B44.5060702@mid.message-center.info> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:33:24 +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> <200602161522.26819.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200602161522.26819.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Feb 2006 15:33:25.0264 (UTC) FILETIME=[53A6D900:01C6330E] X-Archives-Salt: 29c0feb9-02f5-4236-9e38-83490f45f637 X-Archives-Hash: 98deb82970df77b00964c7a3ac56b1e5 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > you'll never fill up root, so making a lot of partitions is just wasted space. No, it's not wasted space. Well, okay, not much wasted space. > And yes, I once put all and everything on its own partition. > I learnt the hard way, that this does not solve problems, it creates them. Yes, you're right - everything on own *PARTITIONS* creates problems. I'm advocating LVM, though. Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #126: it has Intel Inside -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list