Per Jessen wrote:
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)
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. But 6.4G=>fonts, 2.0G->doc, 2.2G->texmf, 752M->icons, 288->locale ... it adds up... 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. ----
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?)
(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...
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. In more flush times I would have replaced the disks by now, but have other higher priority items to spend money on... more memory for one.. though the disk space for the root fs is on 15K SAS drives -- they don't come in larger sizes except at a price. 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. NO friggin way /bin/bash is going to be movable without complete chaos... Too many scripts -- all hardcoded... and they HAVE to be hard coded -- no one every expected the system binaries to not live in /bin -- especially the shell(s). Everything that is done on initrd could be done on the rootfs, which would then start the rest of the boot.
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.
Yeah... well see my biggies above...Got more in /usr/share/docs than that... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org