extra space

[Mark Phillips]

Mike,

This may be useful....haven't read it yet as it just came into my inbox.

http://www.tecmint.com/linux-file-system-explained/

Mark


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> so how much space should I give it?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:29 AM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>>  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...
>> ET
>>
>>  :-)~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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