On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
On 07/24/2015 10:40 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Use quotas.
You mean instead of traiffs?
That may make (some? more?) sense in a mutli-use context, but for a single user home system its an administrative detail I don't need.
Versus dithering on how to partition a drive, versus always having to overestimate the amount of space because resizing is yet another admin detail. I will bet dollars to donuts users who engage in such excessive partitioning buy bigger drives, so the habit costs them more money too. Since it's a home computer, all the more reason to just single partition and forget about it. Most computer users have no understanding of partitions anyway - it's esoteric. Basic knowledge for an admin, esoteric knowledge for anybody else.
The issue is ALWAYS what happens when you come to the of the available space, no matter how it is managed.
If we are talking about legitimate use, then the limit needs to be raised. Example, I'm uploading & processing yet another roll of film from my camera (or card from my DSLR).
If we are talking about an illegitimate use, the runaway process example I mentioned, then we need to fix the process.
In either case it doens't matter what the boundary mechanism is; the important thing is that there is one.
The available empirical data proves the opposite. Given a fixed drive size, due to the inefficiency brought on my additional partitions, I'm more likely as a user on a home computer to run out of space on /home performing legitimate operations. And now I'm stuck with yet another admin task which is resizing /home - assuming that's even possible. Partitioning is mainly an aid to sysadmins and infrastructure people, it just adds complexity for users. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org