On Friday 25 Nov 2011 20:08:01 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:12:42PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > > > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room > > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D > > > > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty > > complex. > > > > So, I want to start from something simple. > > > > Aaaanyways, after reviewing my production boxes, I decided to > > implement the following strategy: > > > > / == 800 MiB > > /boot == 20 MiB > > /usr == 1800 MiB > > /usr/portage == 2000 MiB > > /var == 4000 MiB > > /var/lib/postgresql == 1000 MiB > > > > Comments, suggestions, are welcome :) > > I have my own weird approach that's even weirder than my mdev setup<G>. > I start with... > * 250 megabytes for / as ext2fs (No that is not a typo) > * 4 gigs for swap > * the rest of the drive is /home as one huge reiserfs partition > > And I do *NOT* use LVM. "fdisk -l" shows... > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 2048 976773167 488385560 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 4096 516095 256000 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 518144 8906751 4194304 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 8908800 976773167 483932184 83 Linux > > "df" shows > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > rootfs 247919 29315 205804 13% / > /dev/root 247919 29315 205804 13% / > devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev > rc-svcdir 1024 44 980 5% /lib/rc/init.d > mdev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev > shm 1551308 0 1551308 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda7 483917384 251951296 231966088 53% /home > > The secret is that I bindmount /opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp onto the > large reiserfs partition. > ########################################################################### > ### /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async > 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs > noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto > bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var > auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr > auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp > /tmp auto bind 0 0 /dev/sda6 > none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom > /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 > /mnt/cdrom1 auto noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/sdb1 > /mnt/extb auto noauto,user,noatime,async 0 0 /dev/sdc1 > /mnt/extc auto noauto,user,noatime,async 0 0 > > # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for > # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). > # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will > # use almost no memory if not populated with files) > shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 > ########################################################################### > ###
I recall your interesting mounting approach, but never really understood the benefit of it. Would you please explain why you use bindmount? -- Regards, Mick
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