Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Andrea Negro <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 27 April 2003 20:46, Tom Nielsen wrote:
> Let me ask this...my / directory is about 8GB and my /home 2GB. If in
> the future I need more for /home, can I go to the partition program and
> make my / directory smaller and increase my /home?
>
You should try lvm for a while, in order to reach a flexible system.

Usually, it is better to detatch all from / partition: my / partition is 
usually <256Mb, and never put this one under lvm, or problems loading the 
driver with initrd will lead to kernel panics. All the other can go under 
lvm, so you will be able to resize them as needed.

/usr is usually aroung 2Gb, opt a little smaller (this is true only for Suse, 
which has a fairly strange idea on where to puts things, because after a 
clean install /opt should be empty, like RH or debian do).

Just to give hints...
/dev/hda3             251M  131M  107M  56% /
/dev/pool/data        9.4G  8.9G   70M 100% /home
/dev/pool/opt         1.5G  1.3G  118M  92% /opt
/dev/pool/usr         2.5G  2.0G  433M  83% /usr
/dev/pool/var         809M  173M  595M  23% /var
/dev/pool/tmp         764M   17M  709M   3% /tmp

For the LVM part, my laptop is equipped with a dual installation, suse 8.2 and 
debian. So under lvm i created three volume groups: suse, debian and shared.
- under shared I have /tmp, swap and /home;
- under suse I have /usr and /opt (nearly the same size), and /var
- under debian a big /usr, very little /opt and a medium sized /var (due to 
apt)

Hope will help. 

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Andrea Negro

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