Per Jessen wrote:
My /usr/share is 191Mb. /var/cache is about 50Mb. Mail is only stored during processing.
FWIW -- I just merged /var/cache (~330MB back to var), due to your questions... It didn't make sense... ;-)
Well, put like that, I agree, but your case still sounds like a corner-case that it probably doesn't make sense for openSUSE to cater for.
I dunno about that -- most corporations tend toward being conservative. There is a strong tendency toward "if it isn't broke, don't fix it"... Useless moving around of partitions that serve no purpose other than reorganizing is never done unless it is of business necessity or the cost to it is near zero in terms of money, time and risk. If it is, the the cost/benefit is low enough to justify.
SATA drives have even moved into 4Tb sizes these days, but I also have a lot of those 15K SCSI drives about (36/72/146/300Gb) in servers.
But prices haven't moved down and income is limited.
Price per Gb has moved down, but I know what you mean. Still, a 1Tb SATA drive can be had for less EUR100.
--- No slots. Currently except for the 3 15KSAS, drives they are all filled with 2T SATA's.
I'll admit to wavering on the /usr being on "/", BUT .. at the same time, I don't see why it needs to be done. There isn't a software need for it. So it gratuitous change to something that will affect tons of 3rd party sw for years to come.
Agreed, I also see little reason for doing it, but personally I've stopped playing Don Quixote.
Unlike the move /var/cache -> cache, which makes no difference, the move of software from / to /usr is a poor business choice with huge risks. Moving /usr to / when before this, / contained all the necessary SW to boot to single user, but not requiring it to have all the software to support "level 5", is a poor business choice and is risky. The cost in terms of risk, changing of existing programs and scripts reliability, security, is enormous and so far, not one of the backers has created any "benefit" for this that can't be solved without doing it. As such it's a poor engineering design and bad engineering and parallels lemmings following the lead off of a cliff. Those who followed Jim Jones on his Koolaid adventure are not around anymore. I hardly think standing up to a cult-mentality is comparable to tilting at windmills. Note -- while I often take opposing views on matters, I more often than not back down when the danger isn't worth the effort and I can moderate my risk, but so often on this list, there is the inside group that has already made the choices and the masses are expected to follow -- with a façade of openness that is used to lure in free workers. I find that attitude reprehensible, at *best*. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org