extra space

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

Agree with most of it except:
> 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.
I'd have separate partitions for the whole distro and a partition for my 
home directory that I mount from either distro.
Free advice, can't sue me...   :)
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Matt Graham writes: 

> 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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