Re: /home out of space
- From: Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:14:35 GMT
Tobias Brox wrote:
> [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.
>
When I got fed up with Windows 95, I bought an extra hard drive and put Red
Hat Linux 5.0 on it. I had never run UNIX on such a small machine, so I
might as well have been considered a "regular home user" at the time. So I
made too many (14?) partitions, though it did not actually cause me a lot of
trouble. After all, it was a pretty big (4.3 Gigabytes) hard drive at the
time (1998). After about a year's experience with that, I put RHL 6.0 on it
and by then I had a much better idea what size would be needed for each of
the partitions, so I made about 10 partitions on there. That worked out just
fine and I never changed it on that machine, though I have since given it away.
My second machine, currently running CentOS 4.2 has three hard drives in it
for historical reasons, and has 12 partitions. Two of these are for Windows
XP, and one is for BOINC, so perhaps I should call it 9 partitions (not
counting one for swap). That machine has way more disk space than it needs,
but all those drives are in there for historical reasons as it used to be my
main machine. Nowadays it spends most of its time running BOINC projects.
My main machine runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux and has 6 hard drives. It has
lots of partitions, but at this point I have a pretty good idea how large
they need to be, which drives they should be on, etc.
For a newbie, I suggest a similar approach. Make a few partitions and see
how it goes from there. When you regret your partitioning layout, change it.
It is not such a big deal to backup all your files, repartition the hard
drive(s), and restore the files.
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