[H-GEN] altering disk partitions

[Mark Suter]

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Michael,

> For home based systems these days I tend to just make a small boot partition
> then put everything else on a single large partition.  It avoids the
> problems you have just run into... no space in /usr and heaps in /home.

Yes.  Here's the "df -h" from my current home system:

    Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/md0               11G  5.0G  5.1G  50% /
    /dev/md1               64G   18G   47G  28% /home

> Anyone got any comments on why this might be a bad idea?

I've got two partitions, so all the stuff about recovering files
is covered.  With the ready availability of rescue CDs like the
www.lnx-bbc.org ones, many of the arguments are answered.

Yours sincerely,

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