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Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:37:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200829154417.8dd5f83d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200830085848.68ab4832@archlinux> <20200830091740.7cfd94cf@archlinux> In-Reply-To: From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:36:57 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: (very OT) Ideal partition schemes (history of partitioning) To: Ralf Mardorf Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BfQCJ0h4Cz4rJt X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=L7aJUk9D; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of aryehfriedman@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::d2f as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=aryehfriedman@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.48 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.02)[-1.023]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36:c]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; 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]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::d2f:from]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.45)[-0.451]; 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 07:37:17 -0000 On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 3:30 AM Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > 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. > I should note the professional case is not a hypothetical either since running out of room in the partition to backup the DB for the above case is what triggered this thread (the OS that I left unnamed is centos and the DB is 65 GB so backing it up is fun [and yes triggered by the ISP I was complaining about a while ago being jerks]). > 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 > -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org