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Re: what to take off the root partition

From: Alex Samad <alex(at)samad.com.au>
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 22:33:06 EST


On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:51:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Friday December 21 2007 14:38:22 Alex Samad wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for /,
> > and I am starting to feel the pinch. It has lasted me for 8
> > years
>
> Impressive. Have you run /# apt-get clean/? That should free up
> lots of space.

good guess one of the culprits

>
> > My main reason for splitting is space, all my subgroupings
> > (/home/alex, /home/X?) allow that user to have all their space,
> > fill it up and not have to worry I am not going to have any
> > space left for incoming mail. Specially with multimedia
> > editing, 1-2G hear and another copy their and one or 2 more
> > copies and you can take up a lot of space.
>
> I limited / (incluing /var) and /home to 18GB each. Then I
> created /data and mounted the remainder of hda (specifically,
> hda4) as /data/01. Other disks I've purchased have then been
> mounted as /data/02 and /data/03.
>
> That's where I put music and video files.
>
> Of course, your circumstances may vary.
I have a /exports/{video,music,photo,...}

but I use lvm that way I can add and move around as I need to
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson, LA USA
>
> "As the night fall does not come at once, neither does
> oppression. It is in such twilight that we must all be aware of
> change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting
> victims of the darkness."
> Justice William O. Douglas

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