Wolfgang Mueller said the following on 04/09/2011 08:08 AM:
Does that make sense? Or is it only a waste of space, since the partitions cannot be filled completely?
No. First, I would shrink windows more, but then I have only one windows application I ever use. You may be different, so that's just an observation. Second, because we are stuck with grub-0.97 you need a real (as in primary partition) /boot. If ThePowersThatBe would get their act together and move to grub-2 we could all do this properly. By properly I mean setting ALL of your drive to run under LVM. As it is you can;'t do that. You need a 'real" /boot and /. They don't have to be that big. I have a 150M /boot on /dev/sda4 and that has two generations of kernels and is less than 50% used. I have a 2G / on /dev/sda6 that is only about 20% used. I have a small, nominal swap partition of 56000 blocks. I have /dev/shm /var/lock and /var/run as tmpfs I'm thinking of putting /tmp as a tmpfs, but on as laptop I am more memory limited than on a desktop motherboard. Everything else on my laptop is managed under LVM2. For the most part I run ReiserFS since its easier to grow and shrink than ext3. The thing is that I seem to have more smaller partitions. Many seem to work out at or add up to around 4G, so I can back them up onto a DVD :-) For example, I have /home, and when that filled up I created /home/anton/Documents /dev/mapper/vgmain-Documents 600M 36% /home/anton/.thunderbird /dev/mapper/vgmain-Thunderbird 1.7G 35% and so on. I have /usr, /usr/share, /usr/lib, /usr/lib/ruby, /usr/src and /home/anton/Media as the most notable. The other root level directories you mention are there but work out small. I have nothing over 75% fill - /usr/share Most partitions are under 50%. As a result I rarely need to tweak things now, buy a couple of years ago I had to create .thunderbird as /home filled up and /usr/lib/ruby and /home/anton/Ruby as I started working with Ruby. Since I have a minimalist approach - I only allocate what's needed plus a margin - my Linux installation works out at about 60G. So I have a LOT of spare capacity. I use some of that for taking snapshots, something that make backups a joy and something that's impossible with tradition partition methods. To be fair, a lot of what might take up space or other people is on my file server and is NFS mounted. Buy my point is that if you use LVM you are not "fixed" when you partition your drive. If I want to set up a major web application and need to grow /srv that is just two commands: one to grow the partition, one to grow the file system. Similarly if I need to grow the /data where the MySQL database lives. What annoys me is that openSuse does not have a good LVM management gui. SuSe has had LVM since 6.3 and Michael Hasenstein wrote a great paper back in 2001. http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/print_page_www.pl?NPSPath=/webredesign/htdocs/en/... See also http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/programming.html#LVM In this day and age, a fixed partition installation for anything except an embedded and/or limited system simply doesn't make sense. -- A hollow voice says, "A hollow voice says, 'Plugh'." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org