Re: /home out of space

[CWO4 Dave Mann]
> well, for example
> my /root is in a separate partition on /dev/hda1 and is 100 MB in size and
> is still less than half-full;
(...)
> Scope out what "recommended" sizes for partitions are set at and then put
> some planning into wiping your system and starting over with appropriately
> sized partitions.

Long time ago I came to the conclution that the best thing for a
regular home user would be to just leave all the disk as one big
partition. For a regular home user, it is not possible to plan in
advance exactly how much space one would use for the different
purposes, and the administrative overhead and problems one runs into
as the partitions start to become full are just too big to justify any
of the benefits with having lots of partitions.

Today I use LVM which allows me to dynamically adjust the partition
sizes and even expand the size of the mounted file system by adding an
extra physical disk, and I do run multiple partitions - though, my
colleagues are laughing at me, and indeed I cannot see any good
reasons why I actually need multiple partitions.

--
Tobias Brox, 69°42'N, 18°57'E
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