Linda Walsh wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote: [snip]
I don't even have room for /usr/share on the root drives anymore -- it grew too big -- so my /usr/share lives on /home/share, which is then mounted via bind to /usr/share.
Hmm, you have 72Gb for your root filesystem, but not enough for /usr/share ??
73GB is usable for the root Hard disk -- not '/' HD: Isn't /var, and /tmp also needed for boot ..
Sure, I tend to include everything when I say root :-)
Also I tried to create my disks such that they'd have no more than 60% usage, 75% being the worst for a system disk (of these sizes == not same percentages for TB disks)...
Okay, fair enough. I can still easily fit a server into 16Gb with 6Gb to spare. (without data volumes)
128M /boot 1 swap 4 /var (+ /tmp mounted on /var/rtmp) -extended- 6 / 10 9.2 /usr
Number Size Type File system 1 13GB primary xfs type=83 (root or "/") 64MB, boot 2 8.5GB primary xfs type=83 (/var + /tmp) 3 1GB primary xfs boot, type=83 (boot) [4 49.5GB extended type=05 (---) 5 8.5MB logical swap(v1) type=82 (swap) 6 16.1GB logical xfs type=83 (/usr/) 7 10.7GB logical xfs type=8 (/var/cache) ] ---- 72GB total 15G (/usr/share - another device).
I'm sure you have your reasons, and it will of course depend on what that box does. I'm just setting up a xen guest for migrating an elderly mailserver cluster from 10.2 to 12.2 - it will essentially be running postfix and mysql plus a number of custom written daemons: Partition #1 - swap (1Gb) Partition #2 - root (~12Gb) (no data volumes on this box). My /usr/share is 191Mb. /var/cache is about 50Mb. Mail is only stored during processing.
One thing that doesn't get advertised much, is that /usr/share -- specifically meant to be non-arch-specific, shared-content, is ALSO being required now in order to boot.
I agree, I haven't seen that mentioned, but then I also haven't seen (m)any convincing reasons for keeping it on a separate filesystem.
I didn't have room? I would have kept it with /usr, but ran out of space on my root disk...
Not convincing enough for me - I mean, if you need space, buy a bigger disk. (what on earth do you keep in /usr/share?) In principle requiring /usr/share for booting is probably not a good idea, but I don't see it being a frequent real world problem.
It's bad enough when one can't mount /usr because mount is on /usr, but if you can't get udev running, and that forces /usr/share to not be mountable (which udev needs), OpenSuse has created a maintenance nightmare.
Isn't your /usr/share issue a bit contrived, Linda?
Not at all... 15K SCSI drives (now SAS) aren't the size of SATA's... They are up to about 450GB now with SATA @ 3TB, but when SATA was at 1TB, SAS's were about 143, and when SATA was ATT and SAS was SCSI, SCSI drives were in the 18.2 for 'cheap', and 36.4 for expensive.
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.
So really, when /usr/share grew to ~ 20GB by itself (I think I have it down to about 15GB used now, but not as much SW installed, it pegged out /usr...
Wow. Even my main workstation has only 1.5Gb in /usr/share. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org