Disk Full

For anyone who uses Linux, especially Ubuntu or Kubuntu, you will want to read this! I personally hate how Ubuntu and Kubuntu setup my partitions. They typically setup two partitions, the swap, and the rest of the hard drive. I personally prefer to have a partition for the following: / /boot /usr /var /tmp swap.

Now, the reason I hate how Ubuntu and Kubuntu do this, is it is very easy to fill up the entire drive and not know where the bulk of the data is. With separate partitions, when one fills, you know what caused it, or more specifically, what folder is growing too large. I use several development packages and pull down the source to a lot of packages for experimental use, and so a 160 GB drive can fill up fast. With that said, partitioning things out allows me to quickly identify where I need to allocate more storage, and put in a new drive to handle it.

I wish Ubuntu and Kubuntu would allow the Guided Partioning that Debian allows under expert mode to create a multi-partition setup.