In article <[email protected]>, hoyden wrote: > [W]hat do ya'll suggest for space divvying up? > > /dev/sda2 19G 3.0G 15G 17% /
[...] > /dev/sda3 22G 21G 40K 100% /home Yay. Some appreciated 40K. :-) My thoughts on this is that just because we can split things up, it doesn't mean we really want it. The ``common sense'' comes in forms of solutions for ``personal computer'' or solutions for ``servers,'' et cetera. I find the common sense rather based on opinion. If the need is there, one can do things to improve performance on i/o, for example. The kernel is able to write two drives simultaneously. (Or even two partitions, I believe.) If /home runs out of space, it doesn't bother /var, and then the database server won't stop due to the user's careless space concerns. All of this makes total sense. But unless you really have busy computers, any of these measures are hardly necessary. Quiet computers, even quiet servers, could use just a single /. Of course, if one says ``I've got a busy computer,'' then one has got a busy computer. I won't disagree with data I don't have, nor against data I didn't collect. There was a time I felt nice having various partitions. In this case, I'd split it up and do it again until I feel like it. ``No time we enjoy wasting is wasted time.'' Said someone. There is a fabulous program called gparted which controls a program called parted, which is a [part]ition [ed]itor. It can gracefully handle some changes. Now, someone here mentioned moving directories and linking them symbolically. This is a fantastic solution to the problem; that's effectively like resizing partitions. It's like taking space from an empty partition and giving it to a full partition, and it's done with two or three comands; the UNIX way. :-) And, if you have only /, then whenever you directories grow, and you need more space, the system gives you the exact amount you need automatically; no bureaucracy. _______________________________________________ PLUG-applications mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-applications Reminder: All replies will go back to this mailing list. If you wish to send a reply to a specific person, please use the reply function and change the "To:" address to that person before sending.
