extra space

[Michael Havens]

thanks for the link !

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> Mike,
>
> This may be useful....haven't read it yet as it just came into my inbox.
>
> http://www.tecmint.com/linux-file-system-explained/
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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