Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:28:26PM +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:28:32 -0700 > Freeman wrote: > > >The disadvantage is wasted space, since each partition has some expansion > >room that equals lost contiguous bulk space. (Reading up on LVM's is on my > >todo list.) > >

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:28:32 -0700 Freeman wrote: >The disadvantage is wasted space, since each partition has some expansion >room that equals lost contiguous bulk space. (Reading up on LVM's is on my >todo list.) You really should, there's no reason not to use LVM, especially for wacky setup

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 04:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/11/2011 04:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > [snip] > > > > I don't like to insert a CD either :). > > > > I can't tell if you're telling a joke or being eccentric. Both :), kidding here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2011 04:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] I don't like to insert a CD either :). I can't tell if you're telling a joke or being eccentric. -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 04:17 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/10/2011 2:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> for single user or > >> > >> / > >> /home > >> /media/big -> /home/$user1/big > >> /media/big -> /home/$user2/big > > > > For a sing

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/10/2011 2:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> for single user or >> >> / >> /home >> /media/big -> /home/$user1/big >> /media/big -> /home/$user2/big > > For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only. > For special tasks I add e.g.

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:23:08AM -0700, prad wrote: > in the past we've had two partitions: > / > /data > into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the > appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that > when we upgraded or tried a different system there

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 00:54 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 iun 11, 21:11:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need > > think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do > > separated backups. And having tons of

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 21:11:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need > think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do > separated backups. And having tons of individual mounted directories > won't speed up anything or won't ha

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > for single user or > > / > /home > /media/big -> /home/$user1/big > /media/big -> /home/$user2/big For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only. For special tasks I add e.g. /music_productions to /mnt or /home. The advantage to

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 iun 11, 09:23:08, prad wrote: > in the past we've had two partitions: > / > /data > into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the > appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that > when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any da

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 11:23 AM, prad wrote: in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data copying to

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread Chris Brennan
* prad [2011-06-06 09:23:08 -0700]: > in the past we've had two partitions: > / > /data > into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the > appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that > when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data