On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:20 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 1/30/2014 12:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Lists<lists at benjamindsmith.com> 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 at gmail.com