extra space

[Michael Havens]

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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