On Friday 21 December 2007 18:46:52 Mick wrote:
> The problem with some distros installation scripts is that they are
> trying to be too clever for their own good. As a result they some times
> behave like MS Windows and unless you whip them into submission they
> could trash your system!
Exactl
Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007 schrieb Benjamen R. Meyer:
> I don't like using NFS much...guess I'll have to change that as I would
> like to centralize my server as a one-stop shop for usernames and
> passwords for the few systems on my network - server, desktop, and a
> laptop at present, but
Benjamen R. Meyer wrote:
I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space
on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I
had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that
On Friday 21 December 2007, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 21 December 2007 10:00:40 Galevsky wrote:
> > I am interested in your advice [that] LVM is not the universal solution
> > for partition management,
>
> In the case under discussion, namely a stable server, I wouldn't challenge
> any advi
On Friday 21 December 2007, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote:
> Galevsky wrote:
> > On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for
> >> all ills, or a necessity as such. It is however bloody convenient,
> >> especially
On Friday 21 December 2007 10:00:40 Galevsky wrote:
> I am interested in your advice [that] LVM is not the universal solution
> for partition management,
In the case under discussion, namely a stable server, I wouldn't challenge
any advice to use LVM, but I was using it until recently on this
Galevsky wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for all
>> ills, or a necessity as such. It is however bloody convenient, especially on
>> a growing fs. A server that is not expected to change much
On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for all
> ills, or a necessity as such. It is however bloody convenient, especially on
> a growing fs. A server that is not expected to change much in size, probably
>
Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
>>
>> With regards to your 47G /usr/portage partition I think that it is a waste
>> of
>> space. It won't harm you other than the fact that the 3.8G OS partition is
>> in all likelihood too small. This is what I would do: tar the contents
>> of /usr/portage elsewher
Mick wrote:
>
>
> With regards to your 47G /usr/portage partition I think that it is a waste of
> space. It won't harm you other than the fact that the 3.8G OS partition is
> in all likelihood too small. This is what I would do: tar the contents
> of /usr/portage elsewhere (even in the 3.8G p
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:12:17 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Then, create a volume group spawning [hs]da3 with name vg00 (you can
> > choose the name freely) and create logical volumes inside:
>
> I'd use a less generic name, otherwise you'll ha
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007 10:50:33 Benjamen R. Meyer wrote:
>> I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
>> to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space
>> on the root partition (3.8 GB).
> That's way too much. 256M
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:50:33 +
"Benjamen R. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
> to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough
> space on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition
>
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:12:17 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Then, create a volume group spawning [hs]da3 with name vg00 (you can
> choose the name freely) and create logical volumes inside:
I'd use a less generic name, otherwise you'll have problems if the
computer fails and you try to connect th
On Thursday 20 December 2007 10:50:33 Benjamen R. Meyer wrote:
> I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
> to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space
> on the root partition (3.8 GB).
That's way too much. 256M is enough.
> As a result,
I won't answer you with a size since its mainly depends on your own
needs, but don't you know that solutions like lvm or evms provide lots
of flexibility to manage your HD resources ? I advise you to look at
lvm howto. It allows you to add/remove/move/enlarge your partitions as
you need in a truly
I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates
to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space
on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I
had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that was a different
distro in t
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