On Thursday 16 February 2006 07:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:06:12 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create > > filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var > > and / (of course). This way you're more flexible > > and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running > > out of space on /). AMEN! Running out of space on / is not what you want......
> But far more chance of running out of space on /usr, /var or /opt while > one of the others has plenty free. I prefer to have these three on the > same partition for a desktop, but separate from /. I use the bind option > to mount /var and /opt on /usr/var and /usr/opt Good god man! This is about as kludgy as they come. Sure it gets the job done, but this is EXACTLY what LVM was invented for. Partitions are hard (relatively) to resize. However, logical volumes are not. You can increase them when they are full, or reduce their size when you need to distribute disk space to other places. Also consider the case where you completely fill up your 200GB drive. What then? Buy a new drive and migrate data from /home or /usr to the new disk and mount that, then reclaim the partition for some other fs etc. You have the migration of data and the inflexibility of partitions to resize. If you use LVM in the same case you just add the new disk to your volume group increase any logical volumes that are in need of more space and resize the filesystem. One thing never changes. You will run out of space. You will buy larger drives. You will have more data than you do today. When that day comes, using a volume management software and filesystems that support growing and shrinking (reiser is excellent in this regard) will be invaluable. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
