[97807] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Harddisk conversion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Thu Nov 5 07:20:18 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 07:26:03 -0500
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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Thomas
I don't want to get into a reboot style discussion here, but just want to
say that I read his email to emphasize backward compatablility with an
existing directory structure. I snipped the dir names, but they were
something in the spirit of /usr1 /usr2 etc. Home did not seem to be where
all there work was, and was small if I remember correctly. I agree that a
seperate /home is a good idea, but then he should iether do the same for all
his work partitions (or one big one ofr them all ), with a much smaller /,
or just not bother - which was my recommendation. It would be easy to get it
to look the same, not necessarily better.
I'm done.
===== Original Message from "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)"
<redhat-list@redhat.com> at 11/05/98 4:47 am
>Charles Galpin writes:
>> >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 direction you are going makes this perfectly safe and easy, although I
>> would not bother with seperate /var and home aprtitions.
>
>In the contrary - especially on a corporate system I'd highly recommend a
>separate /home - that way, your going to have a lot less trouble during the
>next upgrade, as /home simply won't be touched. An added bonus is that it is
>really easy to replace /home with another, bigger drive, if necessary. As
>for /var, well, on a multiuser system it can be using up quite a bit of
>space, so having a separate partition might give you that extra bit of
>control.
>In addition, you might want to consider a separate /usr/local partition.
>Why? Well, I for example have the habit of installing all tarballs
>(basically all non-rpm stuff) in /usr/local to separate it from the rpm
>stuff. If you do the same and you have a separate /usr/local, a system
>upgrade becomes easier, as /usr/local won't be touched.
>All this might not be as important for a home system, but for a corporate
>system I'd definitely consider it.
>
>HTH,
>
>Thomas (who wonders if the 1024 cylinder limit is still an issue nowadays
> and if it could spoil the fun with a 3.4GB / partition...)
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