> 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@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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