Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod
From: songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 02:10:02 +0200
Message-ID: <vRGyK-2Li-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
References: <vQAc1-3uV-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <vRb1T-rm-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <vRpxT-tt-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <vRvN0-4pJ-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <vRwg2-4Q9-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
X-Original-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org  Mon May 21 00:07:37 2018
Old-Return-Path: <gldu-debian-user-2@m.gmane.org>
X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.957 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RDNS_NONE=0.793] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no
X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
Organization: the little wild kingdom
Lines: 22
Reply-To: songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)
X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/735806
List-ID: <debian-user.lists.debian.org>
List-URL: <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/>
List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/koe9te-hu2.ln1@anthive.com
Approved: robomod@news.nic.it
Sender: robomod@news.nic.it
X-Original-Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 19:59:48 -0400
X-Original-Message-ID: <koe9te-hu2.ln1@anthive.com>
X-Original-References: <CAM-_Jtm1m_sOefXDAeoF7-0oxDE3xLQ3zMY2DvYvbQdDCVo1iw@mail.gmail.com> <20180519091643.4901394b@sirius.orion> <20180520155715.68c2d80f@taogypsy> <bi68te-l23.ln1@anthive.com> <8e88c2c1-606c-c062-4858-95402d965913@plouf.fr.eu.org>
X-Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org
Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:195948

Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 20/05/2018 à 14:33, songbird a écrit :
>> 
>>    in my last system i had many different partitions like that but
>> with the new system i decided that was wasting too much space and
>
> Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you 
> like with minimal sizes and easily extend them when needed. This way you 
> don't waste space in overprovisioning.

  added complexity for a simple system such as mine
is rather pointless.

  i don't need to learn yet another layer for dealing 
with space issues.  i've already got it going, everything 
works as desired.

  if for some reason i do need such complexity i do
know where to find it.


  songbird