Re:home out of space 295

Tobias Brox When I got fed up with Windows 95, I bought an extra hard drive and put Red Hat Linux 5.0 on it. I had never run UNIX on such a small machine, so I might as well have been considered a "regular home user" at the time. So I made too many (14?) parbreastions, though it did not actually cause me a lot of trouble. After all, it was a pretty big (4.3 Gigabytes) hard drive at the time (1998). After about a year's experience with that, I put RHL 6.0 on it and by then I had a much better idea what size would be needed for each of the parbreastions, so I made about 10 parbreastions on there. That worked out just fine and I never changed it on that machine, though I have since given it away.

My second machine, currently running CentOS 4.2 has three hard drives in it for historical reasons, and has 12 parbreastions. Two of these are for Windows XP, and one is for BOINC, so perhaps I should call it 9 parbreastions (not counting one for swap). That machine has way more disk space than it needs, but all those drives are in there for historical reasons as it used to be my main machine. Nowadays it spends most of its time running BOINC projects.

My main machine runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux and has 6 hard drives. It has lots of parbreastions, but at this point I have a pretty good idea how large they need to be, which drives they should be on, etc.

For a newbie, I suggest a similar approach. Make a few parbreastions and see how it goes from there. When you regret your parbreastioning layout, change it. It is not such a big deal to backup all your files, reparbreastion the hard drive(s), and restore the files.

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