On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:45 +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
I have separate partitions for /home, pictures, documents, music, video and mail (.evolution) and mount them via fstab under my /home directory. I keep each one to 5Gb so I can back it up to DVD.
Ewww
So how do you cope when say you end up with 5.3 GB of music but only 1GB of pictures. I mean 5GB of Video for example is *nothing*
Why not just have one /home partition and then back up to DVD's with tar using the --tape-length option to limit it to 4.7GB or whatever. The only downside of this approach that I can see is the need for a complete set of DVD's to do a restore.
<rant mode="on"> Actually not true anymore because Gnome (in their infinite wisdom) decided that any volumes mounted under /home (in addition to /media) will appear on the desktop.
gconf-editor->apps->nautilus->desktop. Although that will stop any Mounted volumes from appearing (inc removable media) so not so handy really.
After several fruitless attempts to hack the Gnome configs and libraries to stop this (looks like Nautilus is the real culprit here and I'm not about to start hacking that - yet ):-> )
Of there is one thing that annoys me about Gnome it is the lack of configurability, some things you just cannot change because they are perceived as the best and only way by the gnome devs.