[97716] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Harddisk conversion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Wed Nov 4 17:39:28 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 14:07:16 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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James Baxter wrote:
>
> I am about to move our corporate system from Interactive Unix to Linux. I
> could use some advice on setting the disk layout so that the users do not
> see the difference. On Interactive we have the following layout.
[...]
> All these are partitions and as a result we have to worry about one getting
> full and another having room. The users do not know much except things like
> "my data is on /usr2." Also that is too many partitions for one drive under
> Linux (I think). What would be your opinion of a disk (4gig) layout such as:
> swap 64M
> / 3.5gig with all the above as directories under /
> /var 250M
> /home 250M
>
> Any suggestions which help keep the layout the user sees looking the same
> would help.
The above layout is the one suggested in the Partition mini-howto
(http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Partition.html) and its a good
logical setup. I do have 1 major (for me at least) problem with the
setup, its not very friendly to 24/7 administration IMHO. When a drive
goes (hot swappable of course), I don't wanna turn off my linux box...
but to recover what I can, umount and reconfigure hardware/os. <shrug>
Even if not recovering hardware, I don't want to boot just to do a full
fsck on root. I try to leave root alone, stability is rather important.
For your setup, you may need to do the above... that or make each /usr?
/cusr? /hist tree its own partition. No prob in Linux, there is a
logical limit, but I'm sure a dozen filesystems is not the limit. :-)
Or place all those tree's under another source (/usr/local/ comes to
mind) and use links.
Hope that helps.
J
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