Re: disk management

2012-02-23 Thread lilit-aibolit
13.01.2012 17:22, Stuart Henderson P?P8QP5Q: On 2012/01/13 16:55, lilit-aibolit wrote: 13.01.2012 16:11, Stuart Henderson P?P8QP5Q: a: 1.0G 63 4.2BSD 2048 163841 # / b: 1.2G 2097215swap c:37.3G

Re: disk management

2012-01-14 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:20:07PM +0200, Vitali wrote: > >> There is one more philosophical side effect of this question - speed. > >> The closer the partition is placed to the outer cylinders, the faster > >> the data are read from it. > > > > More a methaphysical question. On modern disks, the

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/13/2012 09:55 AM, lilit-aibolit wrote: 13.01.2012 16:11, Stuart Henderson P?P8QP5Q: a: 1.0G 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # / b: 1.2G 2097215 swap c: 37.3G 0 unused d: 2.6G 4683375 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /tmp e: 4.0G 10052439 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /var f: 2.0G 18541648 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /us

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 03:45:47PM +0200, lilit-aibolit wrote: > 13.01.2012 14:28, Francois Pussault P?P8QP5Q: > > > > >With a so huge /var 90% is anormal, you should already look for a logrotate > >solution or choose a new partition map you will use on next update of the > >machine. > > That wa

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012/01/13 16:55, lilit-aibolit wrote: > 13.01.2012 16:11, Stuart Henderson P?P8QP5Q: > > >a: 1.0G 63 4.2BSD 2048 163841 # / > >b: 1.2G 2097215swap > >c:37.3G0 unused > >d: 2.6G

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:55:04 +0200 lilit-aibolit wrote: > 13.01.2012 16:11, Stuart Henderson P?P8QP5Q: > > > a: 1.0G 63 4.2BSD 2048 163841 > > # / b: 1.2G 2097215swap > > c:37.3G0 unused > > d:

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2012-01-13 15.55, lilit-aibolit wrote: > I got the same recommendation from Vadim Zhukov persg...@gmail.com > with little difference, do it in single mode: > 1. Boot in single user mode, enter shell. > 2. mount /, /usr, /var and /home. > 3. Move /var/* to /home. > 4. Move /home/* to /var (except

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread lilit-aibolit
13.01.2012 16:11, Stuart Henderson P?P8QP5Q: a: 1.0G 63 4.2BSD 2048 163841 # / b: 1.2G 2097215swap c:37.3G0 unused d: 2.6G 4683375 4.2BSD 2048 163841 # /tmp e:

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Vitali
>> There is one more philosophical side effect of this question - speed. >> The closer the partition is placed to the outer cylinders, the faster >> the data are read from it. > > More a methaphysical question. On modern disks, the correspondence > between block/cyl number and physcial location is

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-01-13, lilit-aibolit wrote: > 13.01.2012 14:28, Francois Pussault P?P8QP5Q: > >> >> With a so huge /var 90% is anormal, you should already look for a logrotate >> solution or choose a new partition map you will use on next update of the >> machine. >> > > First of all, thanks all for you

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 03:20:20PM +0200, Vitali wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Francois Pussault > wrote: > > I prefer to define my parts manualy like this > > A / 256Mo > > enough free space on the fastest disk in the machine > > > > [cut] > > > When your /var will be full, it will

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Vitali
[cut] > 2.2G B B total > > do I understand correctly, that in my case the easiest way is > decrease /home and increase /var? > Taking into account that your /home is used only by 2% (the least used of the largest by size) and your /var is used by 90% and you need more there, - then yes. :) -- ##

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread lilit-aibolit
13.01.2012 14:28, Francois Pussault P?P8QP5Q: With a so huge /var 90% is anormal, you should already look for a logrotate solution or choose a new partition map you will use on next update of the machine. First of all, thanks all for your replies. As I said /var is used for www-aplication

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Vitali
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Francois Pussault wrote: > I prefer to define my parts manualy like this > A / 256Mo > enough free space on the fastest disk in the machine > [cut] > When your /var will be full, it will not grow up, you have to purge some log > files (use logrotate or so will he

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread MERIGHI Marcus
fpussa...@contactoffice.fr (Francois Pussault), 2012.01.13 (Fri) 13:28 (CET): > J /home all of the free space may I just throw in: fsck duration upon boot after unclean unmount. A good philosophy: as little as possible (fsck duration), as much as necessary (user/service reqirement). Needed: ha

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Gurpreet Singh
On Friday, January 13, 2012, Zi Loff wrote: > Hi > > If I added it up correctly, you don't have any unused space on your disk. > As stated on the FAQ (4.6.4) >"c" on all disks is the "whole disk" partition, it is used by programs that > have to have raw access to the physical disk, such as

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Zé Loff
Hi If I added it up correctly, you don't have any unused space on your disk. As stated on the FAQ (4.6.4) "c" on all disks is the "whole disk" partition, it is used by programs that have to have raw access to the physical disk, such as fdisk(8) and disklabel(8). So, although disklabel sa

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Francois Pussault
ld already look for a logrotate solution or choose a new partition map you will use on next update of the machine. > > From: lilit-aibolit > Sent: Fri Jan 13 12:40:37 CET 2012 > To: > Subject: disk management > > > Hi misc. Here is new

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:12:46 +0200 Vitali wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM, lilit-aibolit > wrote: > > Hi misc. Here is newbee question. > > I have disk with unused space: > > > > # disklabel -p g wd0 > > B k: B B B B B B 18.1G B B B B 40266255 B 4.2BSD B 2048 > > 16384 B > B

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Vitali
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM, lilit-aibolit wrote: > Hi misc. Here is newbee question. > I have disk with unused space: > > # disklabel -p g wd0 > B k: B B B B B B 18.1G B B B B 40266255 B 4.2BSD B 2048 16384 B B 1 # /home > [some text is cut] > > In /var I store some sites for apach

Re: disk management

2012-01-13 Thread Rafal Bisingier
Hi, On Friday, 13 Jan 2012 at 13:40 CET lilit-aibolit wrote: > Hi misc. Here is newbee question. > I have disk with unused space: > > # disklabel -p g wd0 > 16 partitions: > # sizeoffset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 1.0G63 4.2BSD 2048 163841 # / >

disk management

2012-01-13 Thread lilit-aibolit
Hi misc. Here is newbee question. I have disk with unused space: # disklabel -p g wd0 16 partitions: #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 1.0G 63 4.2BSD 2048 163841 # / b: 1.2G 2097215swap c: