<div dir="ltr">thanks for the link !</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Mark Phillips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz" target="_blank">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Mike,<div><br></div><div>This may be useful....haven't read it yet as it just came into my inbox.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tecmint.com/linux-file-system-explained/" target="_blank">http://www.tecmint.com/linux-file-system-explained/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Mark</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">so how much space should I give it?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:29 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
not /boot on it's own partition but /ROOT on it's own partition. well,<br>
actually /home on it's own partition and everything else in /. I figure 4<br>
gig is enough extra space.<br>
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Be careful with this approach, you will severely restrict the space in /tmp and /var/log and that might have unintended consequences...<br>
ET <br><div><div>
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:-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
<br>
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Matt Graham <<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org" target="_blank">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>> wrote: <br>
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On 2014-07-11 05:05, kitepilot wrote: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Michael Havens writes: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The data on my root partition only is about 8 gig. The partition in<br>
total<br>
is 48 gig. Can anyone say wasted space? <br>
</blockquote>
Can anybody ask: Why does Michael need a 'boot' partition to begin with? <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
If you're going to have more than 1 distro on a machine, having a boot<br>
partition is a good idea as it simplifies bootloader configuration. <br>
<br>
(my opinion follows, we all know the global opinion about opinions)<br>
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<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Yes, these are my opinions and most of them can't really be objectively<br>
proven or tested. <br>
<br>
Other partitions for specific directories (/tmp /var/log) are mostly<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
predicated on guarding the machine against inadvertent 'filesystem<br>
fill up' <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
This is true. Having / or /var fill up tends to cause problems even on a<br>
single-user workstation though. <br>
<br>
Point is: why does Michael (or someone like 'Michael') need several<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
specific directories isolated on specific partitions?<br>
Answer? He doesn't... YMMV. <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Having one partition is the simplest thing to do, and means you don't have<br>
to worry about making /usr or /var large enough.[0] I do this if there's<br>
only 1 disk and only 1 distro on the machine. <br>
On my desktop, there's 1 SSD and 2 spinny-disks in softRAID-1. SSD has 4<br>
partitions: EFI boot, /boot, / , and an empty partition where / will go in<br>
case I want to try something other than Gentoo. Spinny-disks have 3<br>
partitions: backup / in case the SSD fails[1], swap, and an LVM partition.<br>
LVM partition contains LVs for /var , /home , and /usr/portage , and<br>
there's still about 400G for those LVs to become larger or to create new<br>
LVs. (LVM is more flexible than partitions, and allows you to get around<br>
the 15-partition limit, but only Linux can handle it.) <br>
[0] Having /usr be separate from / is more difficult than it used to be,<br>
though.<br>
[1] Hey, it could happen! <br>
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