[OT] The meaning of kiss (was Re: what to take off the root partition)

2007-12-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 12:03:48AM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 21:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:28:27PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned > > upon. > > I believe it actually means

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Saturday December 22 2007 07:03:48 Owen Townend wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 21:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the s

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Owen Townend
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 21:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned > > upon. > > I believe it actually means: "Kee

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > Hey, > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned > upon. I believe it actually means: "Keep it short and simple." -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Friday December 21 2007 21:33:06 Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:51:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Friday December 21 2007 14:38:22 Alex Samad wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for > > > /, and I am starting to feel the pinch.

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:41:00PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> If >> some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running as root, >> it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be /home, /var, or even >> /usr than /. > > >

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:51:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Friday December 21 2007 14:38:22 Alex Samad wrote: > [snip] > > > > My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for /, > > and I am starting to feel the pinch. It has lasted me for 8 > > years > > Impressive. Have you ru

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: If some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running as root, it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be /home, /var, or even /usr than /. On this line... Making /tmp a separate filesystem is often recommended. Ri

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Friday December 21 2007 14:38:22 Alex Samad wrote: [snip] > > My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for /, > and I am starting to feel the pinch. It has lasted me for 8 > years Impressive. Have you run /# apt-get clean/? That should free up lots of space. > My main reason f

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:08:20AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Friday December 21 2007 08:56:46 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Friday December 21 2007 08:56:46 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss > > > the system. > > > > Kiss the system

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-20 Thread Owen Townend
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss > > the system. > > Kiss the system? > > > So I have farmed of /home and /var/log and

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss > the system. Kiss the system? > So I have farmed of /home and /var/log and I am > about to do /usr/local nothing really in here that i really > need

what to take off the root partition

2007-12-20 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss the system. So I have farmed of /home and /var/log and I am about to do /usr/local nothing really in here that i really need on the root partition My question is around /usr/share should/could I move this of to another partiti