how to increase existing partition ?

[Henry Spencer]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Because having 10GB free on /home when you have 0GB free on /usr sucks...

But the flip side of that is that having space free in places like /usr
and /var and /tmp, even when somebody accidentally fills up /home, is a
Good Thing.  Sometimes having free space chopped up into separate pools is
helpful.  I go for at least a three-way split -- /, /home, /tmp -- and
would typically make it four by adding /var (so that / is fairly quiet).

If you do backups with a whole-filesystem utility like dump, it's also
convenient to have an area that's exempt from normal backups, for big
stuff that can be regenerated as needed. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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