Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 Jan, 2000 ? 10:17:54AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote: > > well. AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are > > /bin, /sbin, and /etc. > > > Are you sure you don't need /lib and /dev ? You're right;

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-19 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jan, 2000 à 10:17:54AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote: > well. AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are > /bin, /sbin, and /etc. > Are you sure you don't need /lib and /dev ? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMA

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-19 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Hmmm, does incremental backups sound good in this situation? Anyone? Regards, Onno At 07:44 PM 1/18/00 +, John Gay wrote: > > >I've got some good suggestions, and apparently raised a few questions as well. >Let me outline my reasons for asking and what I hope to do: > >I've got a CD-RW. I pl

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Peter Ross
On 18-Jan-2000, Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Ross wrote: > > > Currently I have two partitions. > > > > 1. / > > 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using > >symlinks. > > > > The advantage for me, is that I can trash t

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread John Gay
another read of the FHS documents and a good think. aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 18/01/2000 17:11:52 Sent by: aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Onno Ebbinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Gay/IE/[EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread aphro
i do stuff along those lines as well ..i dont understand when i installed freebsd it reccomended a 20MB /var partition/slice even though i gave it 6.1GB of space. it doesnt make sense to have such small partitions even if there is nothing on them to me anyways. nate On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbi

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:01:07PM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote: > Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning. Me neither, why are we making things so complicated and inflexible? My partition scheme is as follows: 1.5 GB / Rest/vol/0 /home is a link to /vol/0/_home.

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Ross wrote: > Currently I have two partitions. > > 1. / > 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using >symlinks. > > The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition any time I > want and still have all my important stuff.

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Peter Ross
Currently I have two partitions. 1. / 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using symlinks. The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition any time I want and still have all my important stuff. Pete

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought that you split the partitions by long term usage: 1- 2 GB / 1- 2 GB /var 1- 4 GB /var/spool rest on /home Then I link /tmp

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
> I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my > CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M > for > /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND > /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and

New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread John Gay
I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M for /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and some other