(sorry for the late reply, I haven't had time to read my
  gentoo-user-box as of late)

Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Terje Kvernes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > giving /usr a partition of its own isn't that odd, is it?  :-) 
> 
> Not really, I find it a bit hard to predict how large it shall be
> though.

  this is why you have "resize_yourfavoritefs" and LVM.
 
> > then again, my home server currently has around 20 partitions.  of
> > these, seven are system-related: /, /boot, /opt, /usr, /local,
> > /var, /var/tmp.  the rest of the partitions are data-related, be
> > it music, cvs, tftproot, chroot-environments, images etc.  and
> > yes, I do of course run LVM with all of this stuff.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, okeis, Makes me wonder, how much space do you "waste" on such a
> setup to make it accept the constant bloating of software?

  I don't waste much space at all, since I keep the filesystems around
  85% full or so and extend on demand.  and with todays harddrives,
  even if it costs me a couple of GiB here and there, it isn't an
  issue at all.  

-- 
Terje

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