On 9/16/2025 6:12 PM, Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 16:08 -0600, home user via users wrote:
I know a few people have encountered running out of storage space when a
kernel gets patched or upgraded. It happened to me a few times. I
recall seeing somewhere that this can be avoided with wise partitioning,
which is a part of installation. I also recall seeing that kernels have
grown quite a lot over the years. (Hmmm... Is someone feeding them
too much fructose and other "refined carbs"?)
[snip]
There are some advantages to having drive and partition sizes much
bigger than you need, and not using all of the drive. Supposedly,
you're never going to come close to filling them, and that leaves
plenty of spare space for automatic bad block handling by the device.
Oh yes, bad blocks happen, and we don't know about it much of the time
because the drive has self-managed it. We tend to find out about it
when it can't do that any more.
Thank-you, Tim.
I agree with having extra space.
If a block goes bad in a partition, does that permanently reduce the
partition's space, or does the operating system (or drive) somehow
compensate?
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