how to increase existing partition ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:17:20AM -0800, James wrote:
> indeed i just reinstall RH7.2.  
> 
> why having seperate partition is bad now ??  

Because having 10GB free on /home when you have 0GB free on /usr sucks,
and most people don't know how much space they will need for everything
when they set it up.  For things like solaris it used to be normal to
set things up with that many partitions because of the crappy upgrade
system they had, and even then the root partition size recomended for
one version was often too small a couple of versions down the road and
then you could back up your data, wipe the system and start all over.

> what's the better way ?

If something is likely to use a lot of space, having it on a seperate
partition makes sense.  If something must not ever fill up because of
other uses, it can have a seperate partition (logs for example).

My prefered system is, about 10GB for / and the reset as /data, then I
link /var/lib/postgresql into /data, and /var/log into /data at least
for web logs and such that grow a lot, and /tmp goes into /data or
tmpfs.  If the system has user accounts that login, /home goes on /data
too.  This way anything large, goes on the large partition, and the
OS/applications go on /.  Simple, efficient, easy to manage, easier to
resize later if it ever does become necesary.  117 partitions is an
obsolete unix setup that doesn't make sense with todays setups with nice
package management and such.

Lennart Sorensen
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