[Gllug] One step forward - 2 steps back

[Nix]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Ian Northeast yowled:
> BTW this did make me think about whether putting / in LVM had any
> advantage at all. I had never had to enlarge / on Linux. I always size
> it generously (i.e. about 200M).

I may have to resize mine:

loki 196 /usr/packages/user-mode-linux% df -Pk /
Filesystem         1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda6                50472     36164     11702      76% /

200M seems a lot better.

Still, that box is facing the LVM hammer this weekend: I can probably
expand / at the same time... (thank god for ext2resize!)

>                                  But then a colleague installed a
> piece of Novell software (Zen, a PC software distribution management
> system) and its stupid installer insisted on creating huge temporary
> files in ~root. So he had to enlarge it. That would have been tricky
> if I hadn't put it in LVM.

Hardly.

mkdir /usr/root
mv /root /usr/root
ln -s /usr/root /root

(or in extremis, mount -o bind it)

The annoying thing is the increasing size of stuff in /lib and /etc. :(

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