On Oct 25, 1:10 am, "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to install a new Debian system. Previously what I've done
> is to create 3 partitions (/, /boot, swap), but now that I have the
> oporttunity, I'd like to do things differently. I was reading the
> Debian referenc
Hi,
Here is my laptop partition, with sizes and the amount that is
free.
,
| FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
| /dev/mapper/spark_vg-root_lv
| 4.0G 554M 3.2G 15% /
| /dev/mapper/spark_vg-home_lv
|24G 7.4G 16G
Karsten M. Self ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> Updated at http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning
>
Thanks for updating your info. Partitioning tends to confuse recent Windows
converts or those, like me, who started experimenting with Linux using a simple
two-partition configuration (root an
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:54:05 +, Mark wrote:
> Can you mix lvm and RAID?
Yes. RAID-5 at least three SCSI disks, and partition the RAID
with LVM2.
> Does it make sense?
Yes.
> Would it be just too much complexity?
Not quite.
--
Leandro GuimarÃes Far
on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:10:11PM -0500, Al Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Friday 13 February 2004 02:49 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > You've also left off a recovery partition. ?I keep a 256 MiB - 512
> > MiB partition on which a relatively minimal installation is kept.
>
> I would go fa
>M.Kirchhoff wrote:
> I've been using GNU/Linux now for 18 months, and Debian for about 12.
> Currently, my workstation hard drive is partitioned simply:
>
> /dev/hda1 => /
> /dev/hda2 => swap
>
> I just purchased a new 120GB IDE drive, however, and would like to
> partition it more effectively,
On Friday 13 February 2004 02:49 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> You've also left off a recovery partition. I keep a 256 MiB - 512
> MiB partition on which a relatively minimal installation is kept.
I would go farther than that.
My preferred setup is to have enough space to completely install twi
Mark wrote:
> Can you mix lvm and RAID?
> Does it make sense?
> Would it be just too much complexity?
At my place of employ, we have someone working on building a linux
box with the functionality of a netapp. The underlying device is a
software raid 5 array of several disks which is presented t
on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 05:54:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello
>
> M.Kirchhoff (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
> > I've been using GNU/Linux now for 18 months, and Debian for about 12.
> > Currently, my workstation hard drive is partitioned simply:
> >
> > /dev/hda1
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:24:33PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> Consider using LVM, for all your Linux filesystems except the root
> filesystem. Then you can adjust the size if you guess wrongly.
>
> I am running 2x40GB and 4x80GB drives. The 80GBs are split into 4G
> physical partitions, which g
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:23:42 +, M.Kirchhoff wrote:
> I've been using GNU/Linux now for 18 months, and Debian for about 12. Currently,
> my workstation hard drive is partitioned simply:
>
> /dev/hda1 => /
> /dev/hda2 => swap
>
> I just purchased a new 120GB IDE drive, however, and would like
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:23:42PM +, M.Kirchhoff wrote:
> Here's my proposed scheme, based on Karsten's guide--out-of-date, but useful
> nonetheless: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
>
> 20GB => WinXP (unless by some stroke of fortuity Half-Life2 is ported to Linux)
>
Hello
M.Kirchhoff (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I've been using GNU/Linux now for 18 months, and Debian for about 12.
> Currently, my workstation hard drive is partitioned simply:
>
> /dev/hda1 => /
> /dev/hda2 => swap
>
> I just purchased a new 120GB IDE drive, however, and would like to
> pa
Hi,
(3) If you don't mind spending a few rainy afternoons, you might want to
investigate lvm. It allows you to create virtual resizable partitions,
so the only thing you have to decide at install time is size-of-slash
and size-of-everything-else. It also allows you to do filesystem
M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> I just purchased a new 120GB IDE drive, however, and would like to
> partition it more effectively
>
> 20GB => WinXP (unless by some stroke of fortuity Half-Life2 is ported
> to Linux)
> 150MB => /
> 100MB => /boot
> 1GB => /tmp
> 1GB => swap
> 1GB => /var
> 20GB => /u
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