Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 18 March 2015 04:33:18 Dale wrote: > >> Well, /boot doesn't change to much, plus it is fairly small anyway. The >> root partition doesn't change a whole lot either. /usr tho, it tends to >> grow. If nothing else, it grows as KDE grows but it grows with the >> number of kernels I have too. Of course, other packages grows too. >> /var is good to have on a separate partition since sometimes a log file >> can grow to some outrageous sizes. I've actually had that happen twice >> over the years. Something goes goofy and fills up a log file until it >> is seriously huge and fills up /var. /home is separate for obvious >> reasons plus mine is really huge. 1.8TBs right now. >> >> It started out that it was advised to set up partitions like this. Then >> LVM came along and made it even more reasonable since I can grow the >> partitions that need it. The init thingy because of some packages being >> moved to /usr didn't hurt the cause I guess either. >> >> So, I have it set up the way I do because for my setup, it is the best >> way. I can adjust things without having to have spare drives to move >> things around with. > Yes, I see all that, except for /usr. It does grow, but under some sort of > control, which (it seems to me) isn't enough cause to submit to all the > indignities involved in getting your init thingy working. > > Here's the relevant part of my fstab: > > /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 relatime,noauto 1 2 > /dev/md5 / ext4 relatime 1 1 > /dev/vg7/home /home ext4 relatime 1 2 > /dev/vg7/common /home/prh/common ext4 relatime 1 3 > /dev/vg7/boinc /home/prh/boinc ext4 relatime 1 2 > /dev/vg7/virt /home/prh/.VirtualBox ext4 relatime 1 3 > /dev/vg7/portage /var/portage ext4 relatime 1 2 > /dev/vg7/packages /usr/portage/packages ext4 relatime 1 3 > /dev/vg7/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles ext4 relatime 1 3 > /dev/vg7/local /usr/local ext4 relatime 1 3 > /dev/vg7/opt /opt ext4 relatime 1 2 > /dev/vg7/tmp /tmp ext2 relatime 1 2 > /dev/vg7/vartmp /mnt/scratch/ ext2 relatime 1 2 > > I ought to move /var to its own partition, for the reason you gave, and it's > also time I put /boot back on /dev/md1 where it used to be (/dev/sda1 & > /dev/sdb1). >
Well, since I set this rig up, I have had to grow /usr twice. The only reason I have not had to grow it recently is because I moved all the portage stuff to /var. In the past, I had to move everything to another drive, rework the partitions, move everything back and then hope for the best. With my current setup, I just grow the partition and carry on as usual, generally while I am doing stuff on the system since I don't think I even have to unmount the partitions. As I said, this is what works best for me. As long as it works, it is the way it is. I may later switch to the new btrfs, (sp?), but that may be a while. Dale :-) :-)
