Anton Aylward wrote:
On 06/20/2014 03:42 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
I let the 13.1 installer set up the partitions that it wants. It set up a 1 G swap, a 20G /root partition (with all of the potentially big files like /bin, /opt, and so on) and a 400G /home partition with just my own user directory.
This seems totally screwy. Why not a 1G swap, a 1G /boot partition with GRUB, the kernel image, the map, etc and the rest for /root?
What should it be?
I don't see what's screwy about that and I disagree about your idea of 'big' files.
And please note that there is a "/root", it is under Linux root's home directory. Roots home directory is not "/" as it is with traditional UNIX.
I have set up desktop UNIX on 20G drives. True, they did not have local services like Apache and logging was by syslog over udp, so there wasn't any /srv and /var/log was minimal. Printing was to a server host, not locally. Email was Thunderbird to imap so no local store. There were no other services that filled up /usr and /var.
The potentially big files, once those services are out of the way, are now under /home.
But lets get real about this. Why are you dealing with fixed size file systems?
Because volume management is just one more thing to go wrong. And recovering from a volume-manager problem can take DAYS. I have 2 1 TB disks in this laptop... and it's all fixed-sized file systems. linux-86ja:/local/bin # df -h | grep -v tmpfs Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 165G 82G 75G 52% / /dev/sdb7 340G 177G 163G 53% /home /dev/sdb5 150G 96G 55G 64% /local /dev/sdb6 350G 167G 184G 48% /scratch1 /dev/sda2 75G 20G 56G 27% /opt /dev/sda10 434G 362G 51G 88% /scratch2 /dev/sda1 979M 166M 747M 19% /boot /dev/sda9 200G 36G 165G 18% /var /dev/sda8 20G 2.7G 18G 14% /srv /dev/sda6 20G 75M 20G 1% /tmp Works great for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org