Groups | Search | Server Info | Login | Register

Groups > comp.sys.raspberry-pi > #37844

Re: Adding a hardware swap partition

Show all headers | View raw

On 3/15/26 15:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 15/03/2026 13:25, druck wrote:
>> The whole separate partition thing was way back in the days of 
>> unreliable filing systems on small discs. It just isn't needed these 
>> days when you can just have everything on one large partition and not 
>> have to try and work out the high water mark needed for each part.
> 
> Whilst that is true, there are newer reasons for partitioning..
> 
> - You cant fill a root partition with user data if that is on a separate 
> partition.

I'm helping a local IT person with Linux (he's a Windows person) and we 
have had a notebook from a customer which didn't start the GUI for 
exactly that reason: she had kept files and large files and huge files 
in her $HOME and at one point the partition was 100% full, no space left 
for the GUI temporary files.
My friend sold her a new disk and I partitioned it such that there is a 
root partition and a /home and we haven't heard from her since.

Just thought I'd share some hands-on experience.

Josef

Back to comp.sys.raspberry-pi | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Adding a hardware swap partition bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-03-11 16:20 +0000
  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-11 16:43 +0000
  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-11 21:39 +0000
    Re: Adding a hardware swap partition bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-03-12 15:37 +0000
      Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-12 20:59 +0000
        Re: Adding a hardware swap partition bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-03-13 01:26 +0000
          Re: Adding a hardware swap partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-13 11:15 +0000
            Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-03-13 14:16 +0000
              Re: Adding a hardware swap partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-13 16:01 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-03-13 18:28 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-13 21:50 +0000
              Re: Adding a hardware swap partition druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2026-03-13 21:26 +0000
          Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Kees Nuyt <kees@nospam.demon.invalid> - 2026-03-13 22:25 +0100
  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-03-12 09:13 +0000
    Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-03-12 09:31 +0000
  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-03-12 10:07 +0000
  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-03-13 14:40 -0300
    Re: Adding a hardware swap partition druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2026-03-15 13:25 +0000
      Re: Adding a hardware swap partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-15 14:02 +0000
        Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Josef Möllers <josef@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-15 17:02 +0100
        Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-03-15 18:04 -0300
          Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-15 21:31 +0000
            Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-03-16 16:01 +0000
              Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-16 22:53 +0000
          Re: Adding a hardware swap partition bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-03-15 22:53 +0000
            Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-16 01:41 +0000
            Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-16 09:54 +0000
              Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2026-03-16 11:49 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-16 12:18 +0000
            Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-03-17 18:30 -0300
              Re: Adding a hardware swap partition bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-03-19 01:36 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-19 08:52 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-03-19 14:49 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-19 19:23 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-19 22:01 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-19 22:00 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-03-20 03:50 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-20 07:02 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-19 22:56 +0000
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2026-03-25 14:53 +0200
                Re: Adding a hardware swap partition bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-03-25 18:53 +0000
          Re: Adding a hardware swap partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-16 12:38 +0000

csiph-web