On 8 Jun 2005 12:05:38 -0700
"prash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello,
> i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
> favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
> (especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
> i have decided on this scheme to
prash wrote:
hello,
i installed the partitions using lvm on my home machine which only
has 10 GB.
here is a df -h:
mantra:/home/prash# df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rootvol-root
1.7G 200M 1.4G 13% /
tmpfs 126M
hello,
i installed the partitions using lvm on my home machine which only
has 10 GB.
here is a df -h:
mantra:/home/prash# df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/rootvol-root
1.7G 200M 1.4G 13% /
tmpfs 126M 0 126M
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:21:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
When I first tried out the new installer yes I did read what documentation was
available (the version of the installer I used was a pretty early release so I
thought it would be worth mugging up on it) but
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:21:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
>
> When I first tried out the new installer yes I did read what documentation
> was
> available (the version of the installer I used was a pretty early release so
> I
> thought it would be worth mugging up on it) but I admit that t
thanks everyone for your suggestions.
i do accept that lvm was a little difficult to grasp, but once i got
the hang of it, it was a breeze. thanks roberto for a great idea!
the thing i forgot to do that made me confused for awhile, was that i
did not set the single partition to be of type "Physical
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:28:44PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
If you have not yet installed, then don't worry about it. The installer
lets you choose LVM as an option. Then you can add your harddrive as a
physical volume and then make it the logical volume. From the
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:28:44PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
> >If you have not yet installed, then don't worry about it. The installer
> >lets you choose LVM as an option. Then you can add your harddrive as a
> >physical volume and then make it the logical volume. From there you can
> >create
If you have not yet installed, then don't worry about it. The installer
lets you choose LVM as an option. Then you can add your harddrive as a
physical volume and then make it the logical volume. From there you can
create volume groups, which are analogous to partitions but can be
resized at w
On Wednesday June 8 2005 12:05 pm, prash wrote:
> hello,
> 1. why should i (and how can i) define a /tmp partition when i
> don't know what temporary space each app might take? a dvd burner
> might decide to take 4 gb, a regular app just 10 kb. if i go higher
> it's a waste 95% of the time, lower a
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:07:12PM -0700, prash wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >
> > Scrap the whole scheme. Just use LVM. Trust me on this. It is quite
> > worth it. Setting up LVM on a new drive is a piece of cake. Trying to
> > do it once the drive has been in use for a year and you h
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:05:38PM -0700, prash wrote:
> > hello,
> > i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
> > favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
> > (especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
> > i hav
On 2005-06-08, prash wrote:
> hello,
> i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
> favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
> (especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
> i have decided on this scheme to begin with:
> / : 7.
prash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| hello,
| i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
| favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
| (especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
| i have decided on this scheme to begin with:
| /
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:05:38PM -0700, prash wrote:
> hello,
> i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
> favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
> (especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
> i have decided on this scheme to begin with
hello,
i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my
favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too
(especially when you don't know how to allocate it).
i have decided on this scheme to begin with:
/ : 7.0 gb
swap: 1.5 gb (i have
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