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On Thursday, 18.11.2004 at 23:07 -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:41:02AM -0500, Robert Storey wrote:
> > There are security issues - some experts think it's a really good
> > idea to keep /tmp and /var away from the root parti
Chris Lale wrote:
"The Linux Logical Volume Manager. LVM
supports enterprise level volume management of disk and disk subsystems
by grouping arbitrary disks into volume groups. The total capacity of
volume groups can be allocated to logical volumes, which are accessed as
regular block devices."
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 02:59, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Williams, Allen wrote:
> > I was going to respond to this thread mentioning the LVM, but this looks
> > like an excellent stragegy I haven't considered. Have you ever used the
> > LVM to sort of accomplish the same thing by assigning extents?
>
>
Well, I in particular am a fan of using at least a separated /boot and
/usr partitions, because I like to make them read-only and "noatime".
When having multiuser machines I also keep /home separated.
How much space for each? Well, some 8MB to /boot is more than enough and
as /usr is pretty much
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:41:02AM -0500, Robert Storey wrote:
> There are security issues - some experts think it's a really good idea
> to keep /tmp and /var away from the root partition.
Especially if for some reason a process starts spewing out junk to a
logfile, filling up your entire / part
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:54:53PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Tim Kelley wrote:
> > Not to be pedantic, but /srv is for that ...
> Eh? Never heard of that one before.
It's a new addition to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). See:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSE
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:35:48 -0600
Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same set
> of drive spindles, there really isn't any use to carving up /usr and
> everything else at all.
There are security issues - some experts think it's a r
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:06, Bob wrote:
> > Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about
> > recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the
> > collective wisdom has to say on the matter.
rest of the "col
Williams, Allen wrote:
I was going to respond to this thread mentioning the LVM, but this looks
like an excellent stragegy I haven't considered. Have you ever used the
LVM to sort of accomplish the same thing by assigning extents?
To be honest, no. No idea what the LVM is or what it offers so
Tim Kelley wrote:
Not to be pedantic, but /srv is for that ...
Eh? Never heard of that one before.
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On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:06, Bob wrote:
> Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about
> recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the
> collective wisdom has to say on the matter.
Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same s
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:35, Steve Lamb wrote:
> I tend to put /, /usr and /var on their own partitions of decent size
> (180Mb, 2.7Gb, 1.8Gb on my laptop) and then take the remainder and mount it
> under it's drive name in /mnt. So for my laptop /dev/hda7, a 15Gb
> partition, is mou
On Behalf Of Steve Lamb
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:36 PM
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Subject: Re: Partitioning hard drives
Bob wrote:
> So I'd like to know if this box was yours, how would you partition the
> disks...? Are there any documents other than the ones referenced by
>
Bob wrote:
So I'd like to know if this box was yours, how would you partition the
disks...? Are there any documents other than the ones referenced by the
Debian Install Guide on how you should partition a Servers disks...?
This is a fairly common question and a search in the list archives shoul
I won't attempt to tell you just how big each partition should be or on
which drive you should locate it, but a fairly standard and secure
configuration for hard disk partitioning would be to put each of the
following in its own partition:
/
swap
/boot
/home
/tmp
/var
/usr
Not every
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:06:24 +, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So I'd like to know if this box was yours, how would you partition the
> disks...? Are there any documents other than the ones referenced by the
> Debian Install Guide on how you should partition a Servers disks...?
I'd say th
Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about
recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the
collective wisdom has to say on the matter.
I've got two machines, one's a desktop and the others a server, I'm
getting broadband shortly and would like the server t
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