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 2E4211381F3 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:39:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22964E085B; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [5.9.116.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA3FE07EC for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 785D6DC18E3 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:39:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (78-32-181-186.static.enta.net [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 075C2DC18E1 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:39:35 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:39:34 +0100 Message-ID: <4548347.WGKNH64u8p@wstn> Organization: Retired software quality manager User-Agent: KMail/4.10.4 (Linux/3.8.13-gentoo; KDE/4.10.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20130721102145.787414ae@digimed.co.uk> References: <20130719200018.474e06af@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <5209697.brfPpoitih@wstn> <20130721102145.787414ae@digimed.co.uk> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Sun Jul 21 14:39:35 2013 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9899 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 51ebe497207512629415981 X-Archives-Salt: 2b76716b-a5b8-49d2-97ad-88ed2f3f7e9b X-Archives-Hash: f8188a4657b88dc0239a07bcb0593fe5 On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 10:21:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:14:22 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > What a lot of work! > > Yes, probably too much. > > > Oh, or I could sacrifice (part of) a swap partition to expand /boot > > into. > > That would be easier, you could always add more swap from an LV, unless > you use it for suspend. I have more swap than I need, arranged thus: $ grep swap /etc/fstab /dev/sda3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sdb3 none swap sw,pri=10 0 0 /dev/sda7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 /dev/sdb7 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 ...in which sdX3 is 2GB (not GBs, Dale - time doesn't come into it ;-) ) and sdX7 is 10GB. Thus the big swap areas are only used when necessary to compile LO, Firefox and pals. I could easily halve sda3 and still have plenty of swap. No, I don't suspend this box because it's permanently active running four BOINC jobs at a time. -- Regards, Peter