On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:56:23AM -0600, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
Given that with each successive release, Fedora packages take more
space
and people install more software, eventually whatever you set aside for
/ is going to run out of room.
Sure -- law of the universe: data expands to fill available storage. This is
inevitable with one big messy partition too.
Is everyone really reinstalling from
scratch so often that cutting your disk space in half is a good idea?
In half? How are you doing this, exactly?
Ok, here's an idea: Don't format / when you reinstall.
There's a number
of ways you can do this:
1) Use the upgrade option.
Yeahhhh, not always viable.
2) Have anaconda selectively rm -rf, leaving directories like /home,
/var/lib/xen and so forth alone.
Not pretty, but an interesting suggestion.
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