On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 02:49:51PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > (I already posted this to the SuSE list, so apologies if you see it twice) > > A query/discussion-point for those of you who know their way around > these things -- > > When you first set up partitions (for /, /usr, /home etc) you won't be > sure how the takeup of space on these will turn out in the long run, > so you make an intelligent guess. Sometimes the partitions you create > will be on the same physical hard drive, sometimes on different HDs. > > The usual (and recommended) approach is that a particular partition > on a particular drive will be home to a particular sub-tree: for > instance you may have created /dev/hdb2 to contain /home and then, > when the system boots, /dev/hdb2 gets mounted onto /home. > > However, this aproach has the disadvantage that the association > between logical sub-tree and phyical disk-space is, as it were, > carved in stone. If it turns out, for instance, that you under-estimated > the space required for /home, then you have some retructuring to do.
yes, a problematic area for newbies. Although the advantages of speed (when partitions are split across multiple disks)/ and the oft-quoted reason of not taking the whole system down if the mail spool gets very full etc. make this a good way of doing it. > -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > Frankie | Drum'n'Bass tunes and samples. < > frankie at skunkpussy.dhis.org | http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk/ < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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