Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:39:02 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt >> > while >> >> Not really. And even if so - who cares? Make the >> fs larger, and you're set. Also, if those fs >> run out of space, it's not a DoS. > > No, but it means you have to stop what you are doing to re-organise and > resize your partitions.
Well, okay, but how often does that happen? And it's not as if resizing would be hard or time consuming. > >> > one of the others has plenty free. >> >> Well, no, since it's also bad advice to have one with >> plenty free :) > > Could you point me in the direction of the program that magically tells > you how much space you'll need for each directory in a year's time :) I can't. But that's just not needed. Make the filesystems as large as they *now* need to be. If more space is required, extending is a matter of a few seconds. > >> > I prefer to have these three on the >> > same partition for a desktop, >> >> I don't. Everything on its own filesystem. I mean, >> why not? Resizing, and especially extending, is >> so very easy. > > Extending is easy, but shrinking is not so easy or quick. That's correct. If it is possible at all. > If partition A > runs out of space while partition B has plenty, Then you made B too large, which is the main cause of the problem. > you have to shrink B's > filesystem before you can add space to A. That's time consuming, > especially if B uses XFS. What's so special about XFS? The fact that there's no shrinker? > Just because a directory existing in /, it doesn't have to be on a > separate filesystem. Of course not. It would be bad advice to put sbin, lib, bin or especially etc on seperate filesystems. :) For everything else, it makes sense to use seperate filesystems. > Use whatever works for your needs, Yes, of course. > but be sensible, > too many partitions Well. If we're talking just about usr, var, home, tmp, Gentoo, sources, then that's not "too many" in most cases. > is almost as bad as too few, and creates extra work. Well, it is not much extra work if it is extra work at all. Actually I rather think, that it's less work - in the long run Alexander Skwar -- "Wrong," said Renner. "The tactful way," Rod said quietly, "the polite way to disagree with the Senator would be to say, `That turns out not to be the case.'" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list