On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:56:23AM -0600, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > Given that with each successive release, Fedora packages take more space > and people install more software, eventually whatever you set aside for > / is going to run out of room. Sure -- law of the universe: data expands to fill available storage. This is inevitable with one big messy partition too. > Is everyone really reinstalling from > scratch so often that cutting your disk space in half is a good idea? In half? How are you doing this, exactly? > Ok, here's an idea: Don't format / when you reinstall. There's a number > of ways you can do this: > 1) Use the upgrade option. Yeahhhh, not always viable. > 2) Have anaconda selectively rm -rf, leaving directories like /home, > /var/lib/xen and so forth alone. Not pretty, but an interesting suggestion. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
