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Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:30:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200829154417.8dd5f83d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200830085848.68ab4832@archlinux> <20200830091740.7cfd94cf@archlinux> In-Reply-To: <20200830091740.7cfd94cf@archlinux> From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:30:02 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: (very OT) Ideal partition schemes (history of partitioning) To: Ralf Mardorf Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BfQ3H6Wm5z4qVy X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=BsNoahpq; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of aryehfriedman@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::130 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=aryehfriedman@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.49 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.02)[-1.023]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.01)[-1.010]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::130:from]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.46)[-0.458]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; TAGGED_FROM(0.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.33 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 07:30:21 -0000 On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 3:22 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 08:58:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >I guess not many people really need a multi-boot with more than 3 or 4 > >operating systems, that require a primary partition and not many > >private persons really need to store more than 2 TB/disk. > ^^ > This should read "2 TB > of data/disk" > > 2 TB are a lot and we could use 2 or more drives. > > I can't comment on server farms, but we probably waste a lot of > resources to store selfie videos, showing people taking selfie photos. > Maybe all the useful data stored by one or the other server farm could > be stored even on a 1 TB drive. I suspect that most stored digital data > nowadays is nothing but digital waste. > Waste is in the eye of the beholder. For example my kitchen trash is clearly a waste to me but to ConEd it is fuel to keep my lights on. Depends on what you have and why for example I tend to download a lot of videos of long train trips (looking out the front window) because the videos are quite hypnotic and thus good meditation/sleep aids, but watching the same video over and over again is not enough variety for the effect to work, same with ads if you watch them on youtube. Therefore I have over 1 TB of train videos (about 40 of them) and am always fighting to find more room for the next really cool one I find. Almost these are 4k @ 60 fps so they are not light on disk space. Professionally 2 TB would only hold about 6 months of EKG data for the patient load we have and the law requires us to keep them for 2 years. So 2 TB is quite common these days for storage needs. Especially seeing there some games that require 50 GB just to be installed. Split it over several OS's and the problem is obvious. -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org