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 1F9lDl-0000tO-Vt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GFVpOt027353; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:31:51 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GFFJxT029917 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:15:20 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0670F18035 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:15:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22199-01-2 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:15:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.1.51] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A5C18033 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:15:13 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.1.051004 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:15:20 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? From: John Jolet To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? Thread-Index: AcYzC8zIC0GHDJ7/Edq2hwARJOP61A== In-Reply-To: <200602161604.39354.martin.eisenhardt@wiai.uni-bamberg.de> 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="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: f49e8ad7-a2fe-478e-8f33-2c68297b4e78 X-Archives-Hash: 65d588db8901e0b17a28a99cec696ded On 2/16/06 9:04 AM, "Martin Eisenhardt" wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes >> life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people >> still do the old style partitioning. >> >> For example, in your setup, how do you make /var larger, if need >> be? >> >> With LVM, it would just be a matter of "lvresize -L+512m >> /dev/Volume00/Var". You also wouldn't waste so much space. >> >> Alexander Skwar >> -- >> BOFH Excuse #126: >> >> it has Intel Inside > > I do agree with almost all you said (like - for instance - having separate > filesystems for the different top-level directories). Indeed, this (using > several small filesystems mounted together instead of one large filesystem > for /) is a technique that can be applied to speed things up (have a look at > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage to see how Portage may profit > from the use of small filesystems). > > Having said that, I would like to suggest that instead of using LVM, the > top-poster might be better off by using EVMS (http://evms.sourceforge.net) > since EVMS sports different UIs for all kinds of users (CLI, ncurses, X) and > automates many tasks like resizing etc. I have a question here....I was under the impression that evms sat below lvm...is it a one or the other thing? I've always been confused by the whole "partition" question, having come up through the AIX ranks, where such questions are nonexistent. Personally, for linux boxes, if it's my personal "workstation", I just go with /boot swap and /. For servers, I separate out /boot swap /usr /var /tmp using lvm (using the aix maxim that you make them as small as possible and resize at threshold). > > Kind regards > Martin Eisenhardt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list