On 2009-07-23 16:22, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote:
[snip]
Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate
pa
On 2009-07-22 10:02, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <4a665bf5.2090...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-21 11:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <4a655762.6020...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:
Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and
/usr/local into their own partit
On Mon, Jul 20 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote:
>>> [snip]
Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate
partitions.
>>> *Why*? IOW,
In <4a665bf5.2090...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:
>On 2009-07-21 11:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> In <4a655762.6020...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and
>>> /usr/local into their own partitions.
>>
>> /usr is managed by the distribut
On 2009-07-21 11:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <4a655762.6020...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:
Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and
/usr/local into their own partitions.
/usr is managed by the distribution I have installed currently.
/usr/local is managed by me, an
In <4a655762.6020...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote:
>Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and
>/usr/local into their own partitions.
/usr is managed by the distribution I have installed currently.
/usr/local is managed by me, and moves with me when I change distributions,
like /h
On 2009-07-21 05:45, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and /usr/local
into their own partitions.
Just my humble guesswork: the same reasons as to why have /home on a
separate partition. /usr/local is the 'home' of custom softw
Ron Johnson wrote:
> Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and /usr/local
> into their own partitions.
Just my humble guesswork: the same reasons as to why have /home on a
separate partition. /usr/local is the 'home' of custom software. ;-)
Johannes
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 20:02 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate
> >partitions.
>
> *Why*? IOW, what benefit do you derive in 2009 (as opposed to 1989,
> when disks weren't alw
On 2009-07-21 00:21, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-07-21 05:50 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3
noatime,rw,defaults,noauto 0 2
noauto?
There is no need to mount /boot unless
On 2009-07-21 05:50 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>> /dev/sda1/boot ext3
>> noatime,rw,defaults,noauto 0 2
>
> noauto?
There is no need to mount /boot unless you install new kernels or update
you
On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote:
[snip]
Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate
partitions.
*Why*? IOW, what benefit do you derive in 2009 (as opposed to 1989,
when dis
On Sun, Jul 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate
>> partitions.
>
> *Why*? IOW, what benefit do you derive in 2009 (as opposed to 1989,
> when disks weren't always large enough
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> Protection by isolaton, partly.
I do the same thing.
Maybe it's just superstition, but it's fairly rare to lose a whole
hard drive, but fairly common to corrupt a filesystem.
Such corruption usually happens when you (intentionally) write to a
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote:
[snip]
Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate
partitions.
*Why*? IOW, what benefit do you derive in 2009 (as opposed to 1989,
when disks weren't always large enough to hold it all) from splitting
th
On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote:
[snip]
Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate
partitions.
*Why*? IOW, what benefit do you derive in 2009 (as opposed to 1989,
when disks weren't always large enough to hold it all) from
splitting these out?
--
Scooty
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes:
>>>As a side note, it took quite a few steps to setup LVM + a larger /.
>>>By default / is only ~6G, who in the world can live with that when my
>>>/home is 650G ? Anyway system seems to be fine now.
>>
>> My des
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes:
>>As a side note, it took quite a few steps to setup LVM + a larger /.
>>By default / is only ~6G, who in the world can live with that when my
>>/home is 650G ? Anyway system seems to be fine now.
>
> My desktop has a / that is 1GiB, but that's far too large, becau
In Wednesday 08 July 2009, you wrote:
>As a side note, it took quite a few steps to setup LVM + a larger /.
>By default / is only ~6G, who in the world can live with that when my
>/home is 650G ? Anyway system seems to be fine now.
My desktop has a / that is 1GiB, but that's far too large, because
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith
Jr. wrote:
> In , Mathieu
> Malaterre wrote:
>># df -h
>> According to df, /home is 670G and / is 5.6G, so I decide to remove
>>20G from one to move it to the other.
>>
>># resize2fs /dev/mapper/gotlib-home 650G
>>... do some e2fsck dance
>># lvre
In , Mathieu
Malaterre wrote:
># df -h
> According to df, /home is 670G and / is 5.6G, so I decide to remove
>20G from one to move it to the other.
>
># resize2fs /dev/mapper/gotlib-home 650G
>... do some e2fsck dance
># lvreduce -L-20G /dev/mapper/gotlib-home
>
># e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/gotlib-ho
Hi there,
I was doing an extremely simple task: shrink my home partition /
resize my root partition.
Steps:
# df -h
According to df, /home is 670G and / is 5.6G, so I decide to remove
20G from one to move it to the other.
# umount /home
# resize2fs /dev/mapper/gotlib-home 650G
... do some e
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