Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:16:27 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: File System conversion -- ideas |
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John Bradford wrote: > > which is awfully difficult if you have, say, a 60GB filesystem, a 60GB > > disk, and nothing else. > > Well, I don't partition all of the space on every new disk I buy > straight away, I partition off what I think I'll need, and leave the > rest unallocated.
I used to do something like that. It became awfully inconvenient, so I...
> > > that the only reason to do it would be if you > > > could do it on a read-write filesystem without unmounting it. > > > > IMHO even if it requires the filesystem to be unmounted, it would > > still be useful. More challenging to use - you'd have to boot and run > > from ramdisk, but much more useful than not being able to convert at all. > > Only if it is the root filesystem, the filesystem of which generally > isn't going to affect overall performance that much.
...now use a single "/" filesystem on most systems, with a tiny "/boot" one to ensure booting. With journalling, this risk of losing data this way is much lower than it used to be, and the old reason for using multiple partitions - to avoid having to fsck /usr - no longer applies.
> > But useless unless you have a second disk lying around that you don't > > use for anything but filesystem conversions. > > Not at all. You can just use unpartitioned space on your existing > disk.
So you have as much space unpartitioned on your disks as you are actually using to store data? I generally don't.
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