On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 20:29 GMT, Greg Folkert penned: >> >=20 >>=20 Wouldn't this require rebooting first, or something, in order to >>fsck the root partition? > > the root partition should be small anyway. 200MB or so. Those that > have one single 200GB root partition are asking for trouble...
That's not really the point. I think the point is that most of us try to *avoid* reboots whenever possible ... But just for the sake of argument, why do you say the root partition should be 200MB? > I have all of my home machine and work machine storing critical data > on an NFS or samba mounted arrays. So sure go ahead and blowup the > local disk on the workstations... not matter all fun stuff is saved on > my backed-up nfs/samba server. And I back up the important stuff to an external drive. That doesn't mean I don't want to know about problems before the excrement hits the fan ... > It is still just good practice to not have a HUGE root partition. Heck > use LVM anyway... that is what it is for. Dynamically modify your > filesystems. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
