In <AANLkTiki5q8pN=k0mg-ng96vykmqk7w-9skxq4f2m...@mail.gmail.com>, shawn wilson wrote: >On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM, >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >> In <4d685bbb.2010...@gmail.com>, Aaron Toponce wrote: >> >More garbage. There are _many_ good reasons to reboot a UNIX or >> >GNU/Linux server: >> > >> >* Forcing applications to use the new libraries. >> >> Poor reason; I've never found an application that needed a reboot to fix >> this. (Yes, you need to restart the application, but not the OS.) > >lets look at this for a second. lets look at the libraries that init uses:
telinit u The exec* family of functions always opens a file based on path so they will get the new /sbin/init binary. Because of the way the linker works, this will also pick up new versions of dynamically linked libraries. >> >* Ensuring all hardware is still in good, working order. >> >> Good reason. >> >iirc, if the device was made properly, when you reload a driver, it will >reboot the device. Can the caps on my MB hold through another boot? What about the various devices between the kernel and RAM, the filesystem holding '/', and any swap devices? >> >* Even modifying partitions or filesystems to accommodate new storage >> >> needs. >> >> I've done quite a bit of this live. LVM is good stuff. Sound be in most >> environments. > >on a default debian install, there is no extra space to resize lvm. Shrink one of your file systems and use the extra space. I don't use default Debian paritioning anyway. / /home /opt /var /srv /usr /usr/local /tmp /var/tmp /var/cache are all separate file systems on non-VPS systems I control. Even with just /, swap, and /home, you can unmount and shrink home to grow /. Even "venerable" ext3 has the ability to grow while mounted. (btrfs and zfs can shirnk while mounted!) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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