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.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@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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