From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjZGo-0001wg-Se for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:47:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9LBYxBU001964; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:34:59 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9LBTaNP028060 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:29:36 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so988918wah for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:29:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=AiHxM7WKe5IOSyiO9ICbiTvYoSqcoQl2FnOebIG0wOM=; b=Cc9W1crYss72oVw8ycRK20ExfHNs9nxADRY+m2qSm9J3mORs1zxN1d9Wc0VI3MvUKoJLzZz3726ONApItYULrTaQy8m4WrYz32pPp45w6NMgwyUuxaLCBGHJ/T0TDKhEbsjPtApBigQyWKhljChpDex8xi+oYPlCIKz8lZZ4Y70= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=j8Frk3gnzDmkXPFZtuBfi11GVSRh0ZxB8ZQDH0NFGkk64i1J5pv/ka9wcLUAfgbZ3m049enLg/uqu3W+3KxJc2FSJaoiOHExUuEDr7Nfpo65siSQ/yJrK7jNyxWf85YBSff+wrmGQQlNpGQhk9PAaa4zX/k/eWpGng2/iGYZZ5I= Received: by 10.114.156.1 with SMTP id d1mr4119277wae.1192966175793; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.47.4 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6dc3c33d0710210429i286c297erc8fe7b6b50328b26@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:29:35 -0400 From: "Don Jerman" Sender: djerman3@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM In-Reply-To: <20071020212434.571491a5@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1192635313.8037.8.camel@localhost> <200710181026.49494.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> <6dc3c33d0710190511h5717ce59nf2224e4bd53c46db@mail.gmail.com> <20071020212434.571491a5@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 749c4c2cc2ca890d X-Archives-Salt: 7b9f0bc5-0ff7-4cd4-a229-59db36d3993f X-Archives-Hash: 04eb240fd4bf8183a0760e7b9f70c715 On 10/20/07, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Don Jerman, > > > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the > > minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, > > When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root > partition, 35% full, no /boot and everything else on LVM. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery :) > > Since my smallest hard disk is a quarter terabyte :) 8G to 10G is plenty to keep portage and compile openoffice before you build out your logical volumes, and my goal is to simplify management, more than to manage efficiently. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list