On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 22:44, Ben Pitzer wrote: > Additionally, I found that I was misappropriating my paritions. Too > often, I would overuse one partition quickly, and run out of space > there, yet only be using tiny portions of my other partitions. Thus, > while the disk would only be 30-40% used, I would be at 98% on one > partition. Granted, that's the fault of the partitioner, however it's > just easier, less complicated, and less likely to cause problems if I > just have fewer partitions.
I've had similar problems. What I've begun doing is creating a medium sized / partition (say, 4G or so) and allocating the rest to /home or /usr/local - depending on where I'm likely to use more space. Most of the time, that's /home *grin* I *REALLY* like to have /home on a separate partition/drive so that when I do a new install I can just not mount the drive and not worry about it wacking my data. (It also made it easier when I moved the NFS /home drive out of the dead server and into my workstation...) > Any thoughts on this? I really think that there is very little wrong > with creating just a / and swap, or a /boot, root and swap partition in > the majority of cases. I tend to agree. Right ow my laptop does this : /dev/hda1 4G /mnt/xp /dev/hda2 4G / /dev/hda3 512M swap /dev/hda5 19G /home Since I use /home/kevin to store almost everything, this makes sense for me. And if I want to start over, all my dev tools and such would be right where I left them. but I'm an exception, not a rule.... -- -------------------------------------------- -- Kevin "The Alchemist" Sonney -- -- ICQ: 4855069 AIM: ksonney -- -------------------------------------------- 320C 0336 3BC4 13EC 4AEC 6AF2 525F CED7 7BB6 12C9 "I will rule you all with an Iron Fist! You! Obey the fist!" - Zim
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