How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems
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@Reid-Cooper said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
@JaredBusch said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
I really dislike how CentOS 7 will take a large disk and create a 50GB setup for everything and then a separate partition to everything over 50 and moutn it in /home.
That sounds like they expect that every large install is going to be used for end users to log into. Isn't that pretty unlikely?
This is what CentOS 7 does by default with a 150GB VHDX.
[root@bna-nc ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/cl-root 50G 1.9G 49G 4% / devtmpfs 439M 0 439M 0% /dev tmpfs 449M 0 449M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 449M 46M 404M 11% /run tmpfs 449M 0 449M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda2 1014M 174M 841M 18% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 9.5M 191M 5% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/cl-home 97G 6.5G 91G 7% /home tmpfs 90M 0 90M 0% /run/user/0[root@bna-nc ~]# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda3 VG Name cl PV Size 148.80 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB Allocatable yes PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 38093 Free PE 1 Allocated PE 38092 PV UUID 5YZ3rY-LPgV-W0Vi-LoOm-5byv-PdwA-iPaJvP[root@bna-nc ~]# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name cl System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 4 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 3 Open LV 3 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 148.80 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 38093 Alloc PE / Size 38092 / 148.80 GiB Free PE / Size 1 / 4.00 MiB VG UUID fuOf2r-zmeW-gCxG-b8MX-9JQ2-m3RG-S2Y2mh -
@Reid-Cooper said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
@JaredBusch said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
I really dislike how CentOS 7 will take a large disk and create a 50GB setup for everything and then a separate partition to everything over 50 and moutn it in /home.
That sounds like they expect that every large install is going to be used for end users to log into. Isn't that pretty unlikely?
That's rarely the case now (at least in my recent personal experience)... maybe 10 years ago it was more likely.
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@Tim_G said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
@Reid-Cooper said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
@JaredBusch said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
I really dislike how CentOS 7 will take a large disk and create a 50GB setup for everything and then a separate partition to everything over 50 and moutn it in /home.
That sounds like they expect that every large install is going to be used for end users to log into. Isn't that pretty unlikely?
That's rarely the case now (at least in my recent personal experience)... maybe 10 years ago it was more likely.
Maybe 20 years ago.
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I seen that in Fedora 27 NetInstall, it doesn't create a /home partition automatically. It only does the following by default:
I found RedHat's partitioning recommendations, and it recommends a separate /home partition with the follow minimum sizes. Be sure to look at the note below, as I think that's a great way to go about it.
If you assign all extra space to /home, and then later you run out of room in /, then you'll wish you'll had more available.
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@tim_g said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
I seen that in Fedora 27 NetInstall, it doesn't create a /home partition automatically. It only does the following by default:
I found RedHat's partitioning recommendations, and it recommends a separate /home partition with the follow minimum sizes. Be sure to look at the note below, as I think that's a great way to go about it.
If you assign all extra space to /home, and then later you run out of room in /, then you'll wish you'll had more available.
Yeah, splitting off /home comes from another era and what is today a very rare use case that almost never comes up. Reducing space in / so that you don't overfill a directory that is essentially never used is pretty silly.
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@scottalanmiller said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
@tim_g said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
I seen that in Fedora 27 NetInstall, it doesn't create a /home partition automatically. It only does the following by default:
I found RedHat's partitioning recommendations, and it recommends a separate /home partition with the follow minimum sizes. Be sure to look at the note below, as I think that's a great way to go about it.
If you assign all extra space to /home, and then later you run out of room in /, then you'll wish you'll had more available.
Yeah, splitting off /home comes from another era and what is today a very rare use case that almost never comes up. Reducing space in / so that you don't overfill a directory that is essentially never used is pretty silly.
I like production data in it's own partition.. whether it's /data or in /home depending on the situation.
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I see some that don't have a separate /home partition, and some that do.
I've never actually ran into any issues upgrading those that do not have a separate /home partition. So I don't really see that as a reason to justify having a separate partition.
I feels it's so much easier to give all your extra space to /, and not have a separate /home partition.
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@tim_g said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
I seen that in Fedora 27 NetInstall, it doesn't create a /home partition automatically. It only does the following by default:
I found RedHat's partitioning recommendations, and it recommends a separate /home partition with the follow minimum sizes. Be sure to look at the note below, as I think that's a great way to go about it.
If you assign all extra space to /home, and then later you run out of room in /, then you'll wish you'll had more available.
It won't create a /home partition if you don't have enough storage space. 20GiB virtual disk will most certainly exclude a /home partition.
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This is how I'm going to set up the next LAMP VM. I don't feel it's necessary to have a separate /home partition. It's easy enough to upgrade from Fedora 27 to the next and to the next, without any data loss due to lack of a separate /home or /data partition.
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@tim_g said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
This is how I'm going to set up the next LAMP VM. I don't feel it's necessary to have a separate /home partition. It's easy enough to upgrade from Fedora 27 to the next and to the next, without any data loss due to lack of a separate /home or /data partition.
My LAMP boxes don't have separate /home either.
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If you type some large number in the box for the / partition and then click the update button, it auto sizes to max.
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@jaredbusch said in How Does Fedora 25 Split Large Filesystems:
If you type some large number in the box for the / partition and then click the update button, it auto sizes to max.
Yeah, that's how I got it to say 144.84. If I did it myself, it'd be a nice round number.
