On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:45:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > You will always have a pretty good idea how much space / needs, it > contains /bin, /sbin, /etc, /root and /lib. Unless oyu are in the habit > of storing stuff in /root, 500M is plenty. So put / on a regular > partition, everything else in LVM and your initramfs worries go away.
s/LVM/a partition using the rest of the hard drive/ This is how I started the whole thread. > The only thing you need worry about is where are you going to get a > decent howto that explains the concepts. You are dealing with three > layers of stuff on top of physical partitions and some docs out there > are ... confusing. Once you get the picture fully, it's as easy pie and > makes perfect sense. Remove the LVM layer and things become even easier. > Really, LVM is the answer to all those prayers you have been sending > up to $DEITY for years :-) With few exceptions, it's an answer looking for a problem. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
