[email protected] wrote: > disadvantages to using partitions > > primarily boils down to one > > you have to decide ahead of time how big to make the partitions, and > changing this later is non-trivial. if you guess wrong you can end up > running out of space in one place while you have extra space in others.
it's kind of surprising that no one has (or, maybe they have and i'm once again unaware) developed easy to use partition and fs resizing technology to help solve this problem. imagine having the / and /home filesystems on adjacent partitions. it would be nice to be able to slide the boundary between them: when doing an upgrade, minimize home, and maximize root. when the upgrade is finished, minimize root and maximize home. you'd get to keep the advantages of segregation between the two, while also getting the ability to more fully utilize the total disk space. paul =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
