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Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

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On 8/1/2020 10:43 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Leslie Rhorer wrote:
>> On 7/29/2020 11:38 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>> As for partition sizing, I set up my machines with three partitions:
>>> /, /home, and swap.
>>
>> 	I don't implement a separate partition for /home.  Instead, I place it on
>> my data array where it gets backed up nightly
> 
> This may be a problem for the original poster, who has only
> admitted to a laptop, nothing else.

	I must have missed that.

>> RAID 1 array formatted as ext2.  Since /boot almost never gets written,
>> there is no need for journalling.  That leaves a full 98G for / on a pair of
> 
> I don't understand why you think journalling takes an excessive
> amount of space

	I never said it does.  It does take up a little space, but not a 
significant amount.  What does take up space is /home, which can get to 
be huge.  Even on a laptop, making /home a part of the largest partition 
is a good idea.  Giving it its own partition permanently sequesters any 
space allocated to the purpose, to no particular advantage.  Making it 
simply a directory on the largest drive target frees up all the unused 
space for other use.  Even on most laptops, the largest partition is 
usually not /, and in any case, as mentioned previously, it is generally 
better for / and /home to be on separate targets.  This does not mean 
/home has to be on a separate partition of its own.

, or why you would go out of your way to turn it
> off. Ever. Turning off safety mechanisms is generally not
> something anyone should advocate without a big flashing warning
> sign.

	Journalling is only a safety mechanism if the file system is being 
written.  Since /boot is to all intents and purposes never written, 
journaling does nothing for it.  The /boot partition can be mounted 
read-only, as a matter of fact.

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Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2020-07-29 20:10 +0200
  Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-30 04:20 +0200
  Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-07-30 04:40 +0200
  Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-08-02 02:30 +0200
    Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-08-02 05:50 +0200
      Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-08-02 06:20 +0200
      Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-08-02 21:20 +0200
        Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-08-02 22:00 +0200
          Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-08-02 23:40 +0200
            Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-08-11 06:20 +0200

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