On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:20 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 1/30/2014 12:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Lists<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> > >
>>> >And for clarity's sake, I'm not suggesting a literal partition /os and
>>> >/data, simply that there are areas of the filesystem used to store
>>> >operating system stuff (EG: /bin, /boot, /usr), and areas used to store
>>> >data (EG: /home, /var, /tmp), etc.
>> The division is not at all clean, especially under /var. You've got
>> stuff put there by a base OS install mingled with an unpredictable
>> amount of logs and data.
>
> indeed. and its not unusual to discover a year after deployment that
> you need signfiicantly more space in /usr or whatever. I generally use
> LVM for my boot disk
I'm getting more and more inclined to make the whole systems
disposable/replaceable and using VMs for the smaller things instead
of micro-managing volume slices. If something is running out of
space it probably really needs a partition from a new disk mounted
there anyway.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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