On Fri 11 Jan 2019 at 02:12:19 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2019-01-09 14:26 (UTC-0600): > > > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 19:36:42 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Yes, when filling the disk at the outset. With the escalation of disk > >> sizes over the years, it's > >> become more common not to allocate 100% at the outset. In non-ancient > >> memory I only ever fully > >> allocated with my own disks at the outset with data disks, until small > >> SDDs became cheap. > > > I don't understand the reasoning. > > A Murphy corollary: Junk accumulates according to the amount of space > available for it to fill. > Make the space available when you really need it, and it won't be preoccupied > with junk.
Fine, if it helps you. I was unaware that anyone did this for that reason. I know there are more technical difficulties with shrinking partitions than with expanding them, and thought it might be to do with that. > >> Note the relative vastness of unused space. > > > You're not the guy who boots >>100 systems off one disk, are you? > > The one I remember was long ago, not 100 I think, but more than 50, likely > before libata > introduction's 15 partition limit. I recently looked for his page but failed > to find. 100 was superceded long ago; it was 145 by August 2016 when I last looked. http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?147959-How-to-install-and-boot-145-operating-systems-in-a-PC > >> BTW, 36 is near an average count here. I have one with 57, more than one > >> with >40, and > >> probably 8 with >30. My newest PC has 50, though spread across 3 disks, > >> with 20 > >> comprising 10 RAID1 devices, and zero freespace remaining for partition > >> creation. > > > Oh, perhaps you're a rival. :) I assume you foresee adding a lot more > > versions of linux; only three Debian so far? And I would miss a real > > DOS like the old favourite 6.22. > > Except for Etch, I was only using Kubuntu's miscreant Debians until Jessie. > All my 6.22s got > replaced with PC DOS 2000 as soon as impending Y2K caused its availability. > DOS 5 remains available > under cover of OS/2's eComStation progeny (which here runs 24/7). > > > ... if I get my hands on an old newer machine (or is that new older?). > > I get those more often than new-in-original-box, more often broken, which I > am often able to > resurrect. Maybe call them nacqres, for newly acquired > resurrection/recycle/refurb. :-) In the past, the (desktop) systems I acquired were mainly deficient in diskspace. Fortunately I managed to tap the source of 1GB disks that were being used to make it possible to upgrade the secretaries' windows systems (whose older PCs I was acquiring). Occasionally I added memory (or "stole" it from other machines). Since I retired, I've only bought disks. I've never had a new PC. The three desktops I run date from 2000 and 2006 (2). Cheers, David.