Linda Walsh wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
I'm sure you have your reasons, and it will of course depend on what that box does.
--- Everything.
DNS/backups/squid/Samba/Domainserver, mailserver + filter (sendmail+spamd+Dovecot-Imapd)/Time, Home+doc servers for Windows (it a profile server);router;sockserver;torrent-server;WPAD server; HW+NTWrk monitoring; In process (keeps breaking) of bringing up WinXP64 for local Win7 compat indexing; Media server; upnp server; Docserver.
Those are most of the things I can think of off hand.
My /usr/share is 191Mb. /var/cache is about 50Mb. Mail is only stored during processing.
My /usr/share/man in 192MB by itself.
Guess you don't do any SW on your /usr/share.
/usr/share contains whatever the packages put in there. Otherwise I rarely touch it. As for software, no, I tend to keep the selection very specific to what a server is meant to do.
But 6.4G=>fonts, 2.0G->doc, 2.2G->texmf, 752M->icons, 288->locale ... it adds up...
One difference is that my servers don't have things like fonts and icons, for instance. I guess your /usr/share/locale being 288Mb indicates how much software you install - on a new 12.2 server, I have only 31M, but then the entire system incl. data fits just about 2Gb.
My var/cache WAS large for squid, but now I have put it on it's own partition /var/cache/squid -- so that could be smaller or eliminated as a separate partition.
Yes, that's what I call data and I always keep it on separate volumes.
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?) (see above) -- It's not just about the money -- but Not really wanting to reformat root just to make it bigger. I don't have spare slots to put to use for a reformat, though I might think about going to SSD's for the root partition...
But going through HW upgrades just because someone, on a whim changed SW...
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.
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.
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. -- 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