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On Wednesday 18 March 2015 04:33:18 Dale wrote: |
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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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Yes, I see all that, except for /usr. It does grow, but under some sort of |
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control, which (it seems to me) isn't enough cause to submit to all the |
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indignities involved in getting your init thingy working. |
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Here's the relevant part of my fstab: |
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/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 relatime,noauto 1 2 |
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/dev/md5 / ext4 relatime 1 1 |
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/dev/vg7/home /home ext4 relatime 1 2 |
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/dev/vg7/common /home/prh/common ext4 relatime 1 3 |
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/dev/vg7/boinc /home/prh/boinc ext4 relatime 1 2 |
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/dev/vg7/virt /home/prh/.VirtualBox ext4 relatime 1 3 |
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/dev/vg7/portage /var/portage ext4 relatime 1 2 |
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/dev/vg7/packages /usr/portage/packages ext4 relatime 1 3 |
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/dev/vg7/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles ext4 relatime 1 3 |
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/dev/vg7/local /usr/local ext4 relatime 1 3 |
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/dev/vg7/opt /opt ext4 relatime 1 2 |
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/dev/vg7/tmp /tmp ext2 relatime 1 2 |
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/dev/vg7/vartmp /mnt/scratch/ ext2 relatime 1 2 |
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I ought to move /var to its own partition, for the reason you gave, and it's |
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also time I put /boot back on /dev/md1 where it used to be (/dev/sda1 & |
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/dev/sdb1). |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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