[NTLUG:Discuss] Adding new hard drive

[Chris Cox]

MontyS at videopost.com wrote:

...stuff about Brian snipped...

>   Again, if the original poster partitions his single drive up, he 
> runs the risk of prematurely running out of space in his /usr 
> partition, while having way too much space taken up on other 
> partitions.  (Been there, done that, learned from it. (I think. :>))
>
Agreed... this is why everyone really, really needs to move to LVMs with a
dynamically resizeable file system.

> You may indeed suggest that I study up on the subject instead of 
> guessing.  I thought speculation was allowed in this forum.
>
Speculation and guesses are always welcome, but it is an open list and
trust me, I've been beaten on the head more than once... and I've learned
a lot in the process... in fact, perhaps it's one the the best ways to
learn... but my toes hurt in the process.

>   Perhaps not.  At least I didn't present myself as an authoritative 
> source on this subject, but did state what other system administrators 
> have passed on to me, some of them guessing as well.  I guess (oops) 
> they don't read their sysadmin books thoroughly enough either.  I was 
> giving my honest opinion on the subject, based on my experience and 
> the experience of others, stated as speculation.  I was unaware 
> everything had to be referenced with footnotes and bibliography attached.
>
In my classes I do mention (esp. in cases where LVM is not an option)
that the one big fat filesystem is probably best on the desktop client
(where the user has some administrative authority).... so THERE IS IMHO,
a valid use for the one big filesystem approach ... but since we're
talking Linux and LVM is available, it's not my preferred setup even
for desktop Linux anymore.

...snippy...

> Rest assured I will be much more contemplative before I post to this 
> group again.  I will continue to enjoy gleaning knowledge from all of 
> you out there.
>
Well, I wouldn't hesitate to post.... it's an open forum... it's dynamic
and sometimes it hurts, but in the end, I know I learn a lot from it.