On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 09:38 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 08:49 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: > > Comments inline: > > > > moriah ~ # df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev > > Hmm, mine takes 116k, how comes your /dev uses 2.6M? > everything thats not on a LVM volume sits here. the biggest is /root/.ccache (<800M, easily moved elsewhere) and /lib/modules
> > cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% /lib/splash/cache > > This looks to be the same as /, what is it good for, could you explain this? > Its used by fbsplash - never looked at why > > /dev/vg1/usr 32G 5.9G 27G 19% /usr > > /dev/vg1/var 48G 2.3G 46G 5% /var > > I doubt you'll ever get them filled. > I have filled them in the past: my desktop is currently sitting at 74% for both, but I recently went mad archiving to make room. > > /dev/vg1/tmp 16G 33M 16G 1% /tmp > > I use tmpfs for this, but that really depends. > I have done that in the past - but I found sometimes I just had to have the room (zipping 2G plus archives for instance) > > /dev/vg1/home 77G 26G 52G 34% /home > > As said before I prefer per-user volumes (and use the automounter to mount > them on demand). > extra complexity - I dont need remote mounts, and I am the main user. If you use an automount on the same machine Ive gotta ask "why bother". In my experience automount is just another thing that can and sometimes does go wrong so it has to be justified. Experience shows me that a single partition is almost maintenance free. If you fill a disk, it does come to a halt but its easily fixed. Ive found inadequate a swap more serious problem. Ive found that maintenance usually occurs far more often on multi-partition systems simply because space that could be used is not accessible. Multi-partitions on the other hand always waste space necessitating solutions like LVM. For me LVM gives the advantage in that I can add space (extra disks) whenever I like and fill it without having to go through major pain. In the light of experience, I am not sure I will go for multi-partitions on my next server as laptops/small desktop systems I run/have run seem better without it, but I will definitely be going LVM. I am sure that if I had a number of regular users, a separate /home partition wold be useful but I think that the old idea of partitioning everything is actually more wasteful/nearly useless on modern systems. BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
