hoyden wrote:
thanks ya'll for the idears.

I'm thinking that I might just reinstall.
After I installed this OS, I found some things I wouldn't mind changing.
I didn't do a totally clean install before, but kept the home dir. I
might do a totally clean install this time (if I can figure out how to
save my Thunderbird settings. Sounds simple - but doesn't seem to be.
hrm.) I'm not really looking forward to redoing all my icons/apps, but
for a clean machine it's prolly worth it.

Now I have to figure out what partitions I do actually need!

but school work comes first... so I will have to put it off ... until
later today perhaps. heh.

Dawn

Daniel Bastos wrote:
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.

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