Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello! Just to throw a word in too. Every than and now I have been longing for a small partition with a minimal system, just with what the Debian Installation Disquette contains (~ 2 M). When fsck finds a somewhat bigger problem (my clients and friends seem like to pull the plug or press that fo

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello! Just to throw a word in too. Every than and now I have been longing for a small partition with a minimal system, just with what the Debian Installation Disquette contains (~ 2 M). When fsck finds a somewhat bigger problem (my clients and friends seem like to pull the plug or press that f

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 23 June 2001 21:13, Nick Jennings wrote: > > However if you have a single large partition then when you are > > writing data the FS drivers can optimise things. > > I always thought that this was a performance hit, I know I've read it > in places before, but I can't seem to find them a

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Nick Jennings
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:19:31AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2001 17:46, Duane Powers wrote: > > on /. I _always_ use a seprarate /home, so I can keep data in case I > > have to reinstall the OS, (successful intrustion attempt, etc.) and > > Of course the re-installation coul

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Nick Jennings
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:34:59AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Saturday 23 June 2001 04:10, Nick Jennings wrote: > > > > The main performance benefit to having directories reside on their own > > partition relates to file write/read access. It's very important to > > have var on it's own sep

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 22 June 2001 17:46, Duane Powers wrote: > Hm, This is interesting, I have almost always used separate partitions, > such as /var, and it's saved my butt a couple times. If a log file > starts to run away, which I've had happen a twice, it can't overflow > the boundaries of the partition

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 23 June 2001 21:13, Nick Jennings wrote: > > However if you have a single large partition then when you are > > writing data the FS drivers can optimise things. > > I always thought that this was a performance hit, I know I've read it > in places before, but I can't seem to find them

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Nick Jennings
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:19:31AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2001 17:46, Duane Powers wrote: > > on /. I _always_ use a seprarate /home, so I can keep data in case I > > have to reinstall the OS, (successful intrustion attempt, etc.) and > > Of course the re-installation cou

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Nick Jennings
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:34:59AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Saturday 23 June 2001 04:10, Nick Jennings wrote: > > > > The main performance benefit to having directories reside on their own > > partition relates to file write/read access. It's very important to > > have var on it's own se

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 22 June 2001 17:46, Duane Powers wrote: > Hm, This is interesting, I have almost always used separate partitions, > such as /var, and it's saved my butt a couple times. If a log file > starts to run away, which I've had happen a twice, it can't overflow > the boundaries of the partition

Re: Recommended X.21 Cards ?

2001-06-23 Thread Bernd Harmsen
Hi, thanks for your hints. Bernd

privileges problem

2001-06-23 Thread :yegon
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Re: Recommended X.21 Cards ?

2001-06-23 Thread Bernd Harmsen
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privileges problem

2001-06-23 Thread :yegon
while configuring dynamic virtual hosting (with mod_vhost_alias) on a new server i ran into this problem i create a new group named g(username) for each new virtual web, I set all user files to chmod 640 to avoid them to be read by another user my apache server runs as www-data so i need to add

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 23 June 2001 04:10, Nick Jennings wrote: > > > one and waste space. Do the performance gains outweigh this? (I'm > > > not terribly worried about the redundancy with the RAID 10 and > > > all). > > > > What performance gains are you referring to? > > The main performance benefit to h

Re: Re[6]: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 23 June 2001 03:35, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote: > >> I was thinking the other way around actually. If /boot were to get > >> messed up, it wouldn't affect /. > > I guess I'm off here. By getting messed up, I mean more by say a > sudden jolt in the power supply (of course, I do have a

Re: Image disk for debian

2001-06-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:10:55PM +0200, Teun Vink wrote: > > Is there a way of selecting packages and storing them in a flat text > > file, that debian uses to reference in the installation procedure. > > dpkg --get-selections > file > dpkg --set-selections < file > > should do the trick if you

Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 23 June 2001 04:10, Nick Jennings wrote: > > > one and waste space. Do the performance gains outweigh this? (I'm > > > not terribly worried about the redundancy with the RAID 10 and > > > all). > > > > What performance gains are you referring to? > > The main performance benefit to

Re: Re[6]: disk partition schemes

2001-06-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 23 June 2001 03:35, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote: > >> I was thinking the other way around actually. If /boot were to get > >> messed up, it wouldn't affect /. > > I guess I'm off here. By getting messed up, I mean more by say a > sudden jolt in the power supply (of course, I do have a