On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:10:37PM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote > Norberto and Josh: > > Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the back burner. I have the space to > experiment with it now. I have balked for the time being on basis of, > partly, my need to be able to swap drives in and out, and have it clear in > mind which partitions belong to what. Also my main drive is a 10000 RPM > faster drive, and I'd like to keep the partitions or directories that are > mainly for storage separated. I really do notice a difference in the > performance of the drive. this is somewhat of a conundrum: how to keep the > current projects focused on the faster drive.
There's another approach with bind mounts to reduce wasted space. The following example is not a joke (notwithstanding the opinions of some posters here <g>). I used a 500 megabyte / partition, playing it safe because it was my first try, but I could've gotten away with 200 megs. Here's what "fdisk -l" and "df" show... [d530][root][~] fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xd0000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 60801 488384001 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1 62 497952 83 Linux /dev/sda6 63 549 3911796 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 550 60801 483974158+ 83 Linux [d530][root][~] df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 482186 30376 426913 7% / udev 10240 152 10088 2% /dev /dev/sda7 483959368 100296316 383663052 21% /home shm 1031872 0 1031872 0% /dev/shm I create empty /opt /tmp /usr and /var directories in the 500 meg main partition (sda5). Except for swap, the rest of the drive is allocated to sda7, which is mounted as /home. I create /home/bindmounts and then /home/bindmounts/opt /home/bindmounts/tmp /home/bindmounts/usr and /home/bindmounts/var. Then I bindmount them to their equivalants on the / partition. I have a script to set up the correct permissions. The result is that you can run with a 200 meg main partition, without using LVM. Under /home is /home/misc, where I put /home/misc/movies/ /home/misc/music and /home/misc/photos. This may not be ideal for a production server, but I like it at home, because I don't have to screw around with multiple partitions. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
