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Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 17 March 2015 16:07:29 Dale wrote: |
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>> I don't have / on lvm. /boot and / are on regular partitions. |
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>> Everything else, /usr, /var and /home, are on lvm. Keep in mind, I |
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>> was trying to avoid that init thingy. |
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> I remember something of that discussion, but not why you wanted to keep /usr |
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> on a separate partition. Why is that? Is it one of those sacred cows that |
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> "just growed" like Topsy? :) |
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Well, /boot doesn't change to much, plus it is fairly small anyway. The |
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root partition doesn't change a whole lot either. /usr tho, it tends to |
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grow. If nothing else, it grows as KDE grows but it grows with the |
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number of kernels I have too. Of course, other packages grows too. |
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/var is good to have on a separate partition since sometimes a log file |
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can grow to some outrageous sizes. I've actually had that happen twice |
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over the years. Something goes goofy and fills up a log file until it |
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is seriously huge and fills up /var. /home is separate for obvious |
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reasons plus mine is really huge. 1.8TBs right now. |
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It started out that it was advised to set up partitions like this. Then |
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LVM came along and made it even more reasonable since I can grow the |
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partitions that need it. The init thingy because of some packages being |
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moved to /usr didn't hurt the cause I guess either. |
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So, I have it set up the way I do because for my setup, it is the best |
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way. I can adjust things without having to have spare drives to move |
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things around with. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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