On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:09 pm, dfox wrote:
> > Your best bet is to reinstall. Next time giving / a lot more
> > space, and /home a lot less. OR, just avoid the issue altogether
> > and
>
> I'd have to disagree. Look at the df report - she only has 3% used
> in /home. Sure, home could be lessened but I don't think that's the
> issue here. 525megs (what is left on /) should be enough space and
In my experience any OS starts havin problems when partitions
become 80+% full. YMMV
> > install everything in one big / . You could do this on hda7 and
>
> Not a very good idea. That could lead to lots of problems. One
> should at least segregate /home onto another partition, and it
You might remember I suggested this only for a single user
desktop, and keeping a seperate bakup of /home. The idea of
installing Linux on multiple partitions, or all in one big / is an
endless, often politically religious debate. Been going on forever
I've never understood the desire to maintain a /home dir,
specially thru future installs and upgrades. Using a stale old /home
WILL 'lead to lots of problems' by introducing extraneous,
deprecated, often maliciously conflicting (specially config) files
into newer upgrades and/or versions. Keep a backup of /home,
introduce personal files or customizations back in slowly, one at a
time, watching for problems. It's the same basis as the reasons that
fresh installs are always a safer bet than upgrades, any OS.
Multiple partitions does make sense on a multi user or server
system. Mostly for security concerns which aren't valid on a single
user system. Again, YMMV
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