Re: How to get away with small /var partition

[Tom <tb.31123.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:33:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:13:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote
> > Or you could just give yourself One Big Partition and deal with the
> > attendant problems.
> 
>   I'm trying to get as close as possible to One Big Partition, without
> the problems.  The minimal needs seem to be...
> /
> swap
> /var
> userspace+miscellaneous

#df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              21G  1.6G   19G   8% /
/dev/hda4             2.5G  473M  2.0G  19% /mnt/apt
/dev/hdg1             190G   16G  175G   9% /x
/dev/hdh1             190G   65G  126G  34% /mnt/media

I keep all my code and "/home"-ish stuff under /x.  I keep all my 
scripts under "/x/x" (easy to type).  I treat "/home/$USER" as scratch 
space.  I only backup the extra partitions -- all of "/" is disposable.

I've scripted all my stuff the point where I can just blow the "one big 
partition" with no attendant problems.

Giant disks are $cheep.