On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 06:07:03PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > I also have my sources in /usr/src and that is a separate partition so I > > can use it from any build. I recommend the following as separate > > partitions: /boot, /home, and /usr/src. /opt is also a possibility. > > > > -- Bruce > > > I have a script that gets me to chroot and it mounts those each time I > go in. > > I forgot about wget, thanks for reminding me. > > A separate partition for /usr/src? Never occurred to me, but it's a good > idea. > Actually, you can build any package *anywhere*. For something like the kernel, keeping the source directories around if I haven't built that version before ( or if there have been major changes such as when I was upgrading only from a very old system that needed the old compatability sysfs options for less ancient kernels) is a good idea. If the kernel boots, I can get the config from /proc/config.gz - it's the ones that don't boot which are the problem ;)
My scripts *used* to build (as root) in /usr/src because that was conventional and traditionally intended for root to build in, and kernels and anything else built manually as a regular user were in ~/. Nowadays I use a dedicated partition which doesn't get backed up, and which has _writable_ directories belonging to me and someone called lfs, and another directory that root uses in my scripts. So, you certainly want space to build things, and it needs to be writable by whoever does the building, but it doesn't matter where you put it. BTW, I mention "not backed up" because '/' '/boot' and '/home' get backed up regularly by fcron invoking an rsync-over-nfs script. That uses a *lot* of space on the server (typically 2.5 times the size of the data : the copy is then rsynced to a retention area using hardlinks for GDG-style backups) and my server disks aren't huge - main system now on a 1TB disk including the area the backups are first written to, and a pair of 1TB RAID-1 disks for inter-alia the backups themselves and also a lot of photos and media. There are probably an infinite number of sensible partitioning strategies, but knowing how you will recover if things go wrong (e.g. a dieing disk) should be a consideration. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
