The Logic Off Topic list

On Jan 25, 2004, at 5:57 PM, methinked@... wrote:

> Regardless what OS or platform one uses, I think it is a general rule
> of thumb you are asking for trouble if you don't leave at least 10% of
> your hard drive space free. If you only have 700 megs free to begin
> with, you are way past that point unless you are using a partitioning
> scheme where your OS drive is less than 7 gigs...but then, why would
> you do that? 7 gigs is not much for a modern OS and applications.

I love my powerbook and osx, I use it everyday for just about 
everything. However, I have to say that any modern os that requires you 
to maintain any amount of free space for something as basic as swap 
space is brain-dead. All the BSDs (save for osx) use separate 
partitions for swap. If you fill all that swap space, then the os 
starts to hurt, but it will not overwrite files on the root or any 
other partition.

On top of that, I run a dozen production servers at work, all running 
modern bsd operating systems, and all of the static partitions have 
less than 500 mb free. Now, the /var and /home partitions are a 
different matter, but anything that doesn't change in size I've tuned 
to have a minimum of free space, as its simply not required.

And Jesse this is not an attack on you, I just used your quote. I get 
frustrated by this at times and had to vent tonight :)