[Ilugc] Full Disk clean up in ubuntu ???
- From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
- Date: Mon Jun 23 20:10:57 2008
Hello,
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Manish Sinha wrote:
I heard resizing the root partition is the thing which is highly
discouraged due to some specific reasons. Is it correct? I had to
reinstall my ubuntu when I saw my / filling up some months back...
Never use BIOS unless you _have_ to --- after all it is non-free ;-)
More seriously, with a rescue image you can resize any partition as
long as you do it carefully.
Equally seriously, you should not need to run a re-install on modern
Linux systems unless you have done something close to 'rm -rf /'.
Here is one reasonable way to partition the system (which is supported
by the Debian Installer and hence is probably supported by the Ubuntu
installer as well).
/dev/hda1 ext2 1-2G
1. Usually mounted read-only as /boot.
2. Contains a full rescue image which
can be loaded and run from RAM.
3. Also contains grub, kernel, initrd for
regular system
/dev/hda2 LVM or encrypted LVM (rest of disk capacity)
1. Contains all your swap, /usr, /var, /home, /tmp
partitions as logical partitions.
2. All such partitions can be resized and/or
mirrored and/or snapshot-ed for backups.
Regards,
Kapil.
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