On Saturday 30 June 2001 17:49, Christian Hammers wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:13:33AM -0400, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote: > > Basically, I have 20 gigs of space to tinker with (well, there's > > really 40 there, but I run a hardware RAID 10). I also have half a > > gig of SDRAM (sure this would matter with swap space). Now, I have > > no problem running fdisk or anything, but I wanted to get a feel for > > what people are doing for various types of systems. > > Seperated partitions are usefull for the following reasons for me: > * /boot because old bootloaders (and new?) have problems with bzImage > files over a certan sector number, i.e. it should be at the start of > your HDD.
If your root file system is at the start then it is unlikely to be large enough to break any boot loaders. Recent boot loaders are very capable... > * /var, as used for logs, can fill up completely if a program > get mad and prevent other programs than just syslogd from working if > it's on / chgrp log /var/log/*log Set quota for log group. Problem solved? > Something I would suggest you, too is LVM. There you can partition your > harddisc(s) in arbitrary pieces (physical extends), put them together > in a big heap (volume group) and from this heap you can cut out your > virtual discs (logical volumes) and resize them as needed no matter if > they are physically in a line or scattered over all harddiscs. > Of course this requires a filesystem that can adjust, too, only > extending the (virtual) partition alone doesn't help. But reiserfs > (AFAIK) and ext2/ext3 can do it. > (well but keep in mind that this is not 10-year-approved technology so > maybe not use it with your best paying customer..) From what I've seen LVM is much better at breaking data into pieces than it is at putting them back together... I wanted to take over maintenance of the LVM packages for Debian but couldn't because I couldn't get it working with a recent kernel! -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
