On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:51:06AM +0200, David wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:25:23AM +0200, David wrote: > [...] > > > > Sort answer, read the disk-related HOWTOs and try switching to JFS. > > > > Unfortunately, experimenting with other filesystems will have to wait > until I have a spare drive. I don't know of a way to convert to other > filesystems on the fly :-) Also, the need to defer fsck seems like a > poor reason to go through the trouble of switching my home PC's > filesystem :-) >
There are several hard-disk HOWTOs in the doc-linux-howto packages (pick your format). Its not that hard if you have a spare partition or just good backups. Its especially easy if you're using LVM. Without LVM I admit it can be a bit of a shell-game but it only takes a few minutes once you map it out. Unless you're willing to rewrite fsck to get a defer mode, switching to a faster fs is a valid option. > I disagree here. You can easily use up 300 MB on / by installing a few > large packages from Debian. Or are you saying that / should contain > almost nothing, and that /usr, /var/, etc should all be on separate > partitions? Yes, when one says that / is 300MB, it means that /usr, /var, and /home are separate. Etch won't fit on 512MB complete yet alone having any special packages installed. > > Maybe if your system is extremely critical you would need to have / this way. > > Personally, I would like to be able to take a 500 GB drive, and put > the whole filesystem on / (including /boot, and a swap file) in my > home PC, and not be forced to wait for bootup fsck to scan the entire > drive every X days/boot before I can use it. I don't mind if it takes > an hour to scan, as long as that hour is not when I need to be > actively using the PC (after I tell the machine to shut down is a good > time). I would call my home computer extremely critical. I don't want some bug corrupting /usr or /var and making it so that I can't boot to fix it. With / separate and small, the chances of it getting corrupted are rather small. Doug. > > Also, that hour-long scan needs to be cleanly interruptible. Ctrl+C or > ESC needs to do the right thing. > > David. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
