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writes:
>Hmm. More like 5MB for /boot
If you are going to install a stock initrd 2.4 kernel, that's over 5MB
per installed kernel. I'd recommend at least 18MB in /boot to allow three
at time. (I made the mistake of to small /boot on one of my sy
* Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> Does these aregument below true for highly on-memmory cached file system
> like Linux? It aint DOS. Also modern HDD comes with quite a bit of
> memory and optimized firmware to reduce headmovement.
That's why I mentioned big iron: I imagine on a h
* Mario Vukelic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 01:14, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
>
> > Hmm. More like 5MB for /boot and 10GB for /.
>
> Ooops. Of course. My multi-partition setup confused me
>
> > A separate partition for
> > users' data may not be a bad idea, but if you d
Does these aregument below true for highly on-memmory cached file system
like Linux? It aint DOS. Also modern HDD comes with quite a bit of
memory and optimized firmware to reduce headmovement.
I wonder ... :-)
Single drive is worse than multi drive, I agree.
Cheers
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 1
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:14:32 -0600
Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When your system switches from reading in a binary from /bin to
> writing a pid file in /var, obviously, there'll be head movement.
> If /bin sits on one end of the disk, and /var on another, there'll
> be more head mov
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 01:14, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> Hmm. More like 5MB for /boot and 10GB for /.
Ooops. Of course. My multi-partition setup confused me
> A separate partition for
> users' data may not be a bad idea, but if you do regular backups that
> doesn't really matter.
Don't know, does
* Mario Vukelic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 15:11, Kent West wrote:
>
> > There are two basic reasons for having extra partitions: reliability, and
> > security.
>
> The other day I read that it's /not/ recommended to partition a single
> disk too much, since the ke
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 15:11, Kent West wrote:
> There are two basic reasons for having extra partitions: reliability, and
> security.
The other day I read that it's /not/ recommended to partition a single
disk too much, since the kernel would not handle that well: it would
read/write the partit
on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:11:45AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 December 2001 03:35 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have read
> > all the information about partitioning. I have decided to make linux the
>
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 14:11, Kent West wrote:
> In my opinion, if it's just a home box, there's not any major advantage to
> breaking up such a large drive into multiple partitions (although personally,
> I still would, because I tend to think it's the Right Thing to do). If it's a
> server mach
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 03:35 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have read
> all the information about partitioning. I have decided to make linux the
> only OS on this hard drive. Can somebody who has experience with this size
> drive te
Tetsu Oni wrote:
>I have configured my system to have a separate /tmp partition, but >when it is
>mounted, its permissions are set 755. How can I get the >/tmp partition to
>have the correct permissions after it is mounted? >How does it appear in your
>/etc/fstab?
# chmod 1777 /tmp
No need
Paolo Falcone, 2001-Dec-06 02:25 +0800:
>
> Yes, there are considerable advantages in breaking up your drive into
> smaller partitions. One would be relative security of data against
> possible file system corruption. Given that the root partition's
> filesystem has been corrupted, it is possible
Paolo Falcone, 2001-Dec-06 02:25 +0800:
>
> Yes, there are considerable advantages in breaking up your drive into
> smaller partitions. One would be relative security of data against
> possible file system corruption. Given that the root partition's
> filesystem has been corrupted, it is possible
Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have >read all
>the information about partitioning. I have decided to make >linux the only OS
>on this hard drive. Can somebody who has >experience with this size drive tell
>me if there is major advantage >t
* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have read
> all the information about partitioning. I have decided to make linux the
> only OS on this hard drive. Can somebody who has experience with this size
> drive tell me if th
My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have read
all the information about partitioning. I have decided to make linux the
only OS on this hard drive. Can somebody who has experience with this size
drive tell me if there is major advantage to breaking up the hard drive
into
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