> to have filled up your root partition. All the better to have /var off by > itself on another partitiion somewhere. Normally, of course, that shouldn't > happen; something must have caused a runaway log. For 'regular' workstations > those logs should be only a few megs apiece.
They were except for those few files I mentioned. > About failsafe in particular: I don't pretty much like Mandrake's idea of > graphical login, which even goes as far to elide the need for passwords at > times. To each their own, but I prefer actually having to login at a login: > prompt. And, I've always booted up in console mode, using startx to get > to X. Is there an advantage to booting to console rather than to the graphical login? I've only used console mode in 'emergencies'. I have an 11 yr old who will only use Linux so the graphical login is easier for her to use. > I had just gotten DSL... Only in my dreams. > And for what it's worth - I don't know if you're running with ext2 or > reiserfs, but another way to add a lot of extra space is to switch to > reiserfs. I didn't expect it at all, but I converted some of my filesystems > over to reiserfs earlier today, and /home, which was a 5gig filesystem and > was almost full, now has >900 megs free. The same is true for /usr/local, > another 5 gig partition. It wasn't as full as /home, but there's a lot more > room there now. I figure that's due to not needing inodes and such. Probably > though there's got to be some reserved room for the journal - what happens > when that gets full? ext2 So how many partitions do you actually have then? I thought this was a good idea: Lanman wrote: > I'd like to suggest that you break your "/home" partition into 2 partitions. > Typically, DiskDrake will setup 3 partitions (ie; / , swap, and /home), but I > suggest a fourth partition which can be used as an archive (read as storage) > partition. But you took this further yet? So how many partitions would be reasonably possible? your other email: > it makes good sense to have multiple partitions. A drawback of course to that > approach is that the new person doesn't really have a good idea of the space > requirements for the various partitions. Makes sense to me but additionally, the new person doesn't really have an idea as to what can be partitioned alone and what can't. Lori
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