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 1F9nYV-0001Tq-6X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:08:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GI7bsr001456; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:07:37 GMT Received: from popmail.jettissystems.com (popmail.jettissystems.com [38.118.146.212]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GI0bfA017036 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:00:37 GMT Received: from [10.131.13.105] (unknown [69.17.21.212]) by popmail.jettissystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA2756D4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:00:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43F4BDC4.9090301@badapple.net> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:00:36 -0800 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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> <43F48E86.2080702@mid.message-center.info> <20060216161714.71f319da@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <43F4BA91.6050304@mid.email-server.info> In-Reply-To: <43F4BA91.6050304@mid.email-server.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: de35fcd5-ae8e-4a5c-aa8b-16bd5bae01ae X-Archives-Hash: 143db80ee6ac73ef0c5765a7d9bb0c61 Alexander Skwar wrote: > I can't. But that's just not needed. Make the filesystems > as large as they *now* need to be. If more space is required, > extending is a matter of a few seconds. I agree with that. 80GB drive, lvm up 50GB of it, and then you can grow whatever as needed. It's not like you need all that space to begin with. Maybe you end up needing more in /var? Add another 10GB. Maybe /home? Add another 10GB. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list