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by xtiansimon 1884 days ago
I was thinking about this over the weekend, because I needed to resize a partition on Linux. I know I did this before. I know it was successful. For the life of me I couldn't find the reference. Grrrr

I have a practice of creating a directory `Machine_<host_name>` for each physical device. And, further I name each file `<host_name>-*`.

But did I name the file LUKS? LVM? or name it after my distro? or just partitioning? (of course, in truth, I can search in text files for those same keywords, but really I was just overwhelmed by the disorder of my folder)

So I was thinking about this problem. Now a bunch of odd folder names just doesn't communicate in a pinch. Now I'm thinking along the same lines of how programs are packaged. Specially named folders. Structures of folders.

I'm thinking along the lines of:

  +- Machine-<host_name>
  |- issues.d
  |- docs.d
  |- configs.d
  |- fixes.d
Prolly not what people are thinking about 'how to organize your knowledge', but it's on my mind after this weekend. (And yes, I was able to successfully resize my partitions. Woot!)