extra space

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

> not /boot on it's own partition but /ROOT on it's own partition. well,
> actually /home on it's own partition and everything else in /. I figure 4
> gig is enough extra space.
Be careful with this approach, you will severely restrict the space in /tmp 
and /var/log and that might have unintended consequences...
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> :-)~MIKE~(-: 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote: 
> 
>> On 2014-07-11 05:05, kitepilot wrote: 
>>
>>> Michael Havens writes: 
>>>
>>>> The data on my root partition only is about 8 gig.  The partition in
>>>> total
>>>> is 48 gig. Can anyone say wasted space? 
>>>>
>>> Can anybody ask: Why does Michael need a 'boot' partition to begin with? 
>>>
>>
>> If you're going to have more than 1 distro on a machine, having a boot
>> partition is a good idea as it simplifies bootloader configuration. 
>>
>>
>>  (my opinion follows, we all know the global opinion about opinions)
>>>
>>
>> Yes, these are my opinions and most of them can't really be objectively
>> proven or tested. 
>>
>>
>>  Other partitions for specific directories (/tmp /var/log) are mostly
>>> predicated on guarding the machine against inadvertent 'filesystem
>>> fill up' 
>>>
>>
>> This is true.  Having / or /var fill up tends to cause problems even on a
>> single-user workstation though. 
>>
>>
>>  Point is: why does Michael (or someone like 'Michael') need several
>>> specific directories isolated on specific partitions?
>>> Answer?  He doesn't...  YMMV. 
>>>
>>
>> Having one partition is the simplest thing to do, and means you don't have
>> to worry about making /usr or /var large enough.[0]  I do this if there's
>> only 1 disk and only 1 distro on the machine. 
>>
>> On my desktop, there's 1 SSD and 2 spinny-disks in softRAID-1.  SSD has 4
>> partitions:  EFI boot, /boot, / , and an empty partition where / will go in
>> case I want to try something other than Gentoo.  Spinny-disks have 3
>> partitions:  backup / in case the SSD fails[1], swap, and an LVM partition.
>>  LVM partition contains LVs for /var , /home , and /usr/portage , and
>> there's still about 400G for those LVs to become larger or to create new
>> LVs.  (LVM is more flexible than partitions, and allows you to get around
>> the 15-partition limit, but only Linux can handle it.) 
>>
>> [0] Having /usr be separate from / is more difficult than it used to be,
>> though.
>> [1] Hey, it could happen! 
>>
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