OK... my tuppence, after the discussion has finished :-)
1) you have two hard disks, why not split the partitions equally across them
both?
a) when you get an fsck at bootup it runs both hardisks at the same time, sop is
quicker.
b) split the swap across two partitions on two hard disks, with equ
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> /var is awful large unless you're spooling huge print jobs or running
> your own news server. You could probably reduce it.
I've been hearing that alot. I think i will reduce it, probably 500-700M?
My concern was that i would have enough for /tmp a
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about wasting a bit of space on the / partition... it's
> probably the most difficult to fix when you run out of space, so go ahead
> and give it 300-400M. Mine is 500M and runs about 24% used (/home
> included).
But i'm not going to p
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
> Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why
> i hope to get a lot of opinions!
>
> One partition for swap, one for everything else. From what i've heard,
> not a very good arangement if anything goes wrong.
Also harder to back up
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:11:22AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > > 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> > >parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one p
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:06:33 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
>> The only thing that needs to be below the 1024th cylinder is the
>> kernel (vmlinuz) and LILO's second stage boot loader
>
>Yes, but the kernel needs to be able to access mount
On Tuesday, June 08, 1999 at 10:06:33 -0500, Brad wrote:
> To: Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-UIDL: 4181e49e7b173d93decf7e7555e9405e
>
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
> Yes, but the kernel needs to be able to access mount in /bin, init
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> >parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the
> >1024th cyl for hysterical reasons, whi
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:03:39 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
> > parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the
> > 1024th cyl for hysteri
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:39AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why
> i hope to get a lot of opinions!
>
> 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev,
>parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one par
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Brendon Baumgartner wrote:
> There is a Howto on this. Searhc LDP for it. It goes into great detail.
Not that great. Several docs and HOWTOs mention splitting off /usr and/or
/var and/or /home and/or /tmp, but none recommends sizes that are at all
useful. Most of the size reco
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Orion the Hunter wrote:
> OK, you asked for it...
>
> I would save 500-750MB for later experimentation with other setups (for
> exaple, debian potato).
Actually, i'm running potato right now. Haven't had too many troubles with
it yet, submitted bug reports (usually with solu
There is a Howto on this. Searhc LDP for it. It goes into great detail.
Maybe it was one of their admin docs. Not sure. For me, I make partitions
of:
/
/usr
/home
swap
I sometimes get more creative depending on the purpose of the system. If its
a news server or high traffic mail server, i would m
Quoting Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why
> i hope to get a lot of opinions!
OK, you asked for it...
I would save 500-750MB for later experimentation with other setups (for
exaple, debian potato). You don't need to make a parti
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