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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
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