>>> On 11/26/2009 at 4:08 PM, And Get Involved <sunny...@wcb.ab.ca> wrote: -snip- >># df -h >>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >>/dev/dasda1 388M 119M 250M 33% / >>/dev/vg1/home 97M 4.2M 88M 5% /home >>/dev/vg1/opt 74M 21M 50M 30% /opt >>/dev/vg1/srv 1.2G 1.1G 100M 92% /srv >>/dev/vg1/tmp 291M 17M 260M 6% /tmp >>/dev/vg1/usr 1.2G 915M 183M 84% /usr >>/dev/vg1/var 245M 69M 164M 30% /var > > I know all the other folder is above / folder. > so this setting means except /home /opt /srv /tmp /usr /var > other linux folders are resident on dasda1 > And the size on dasda1 is fixed.
Correct. > Does that mean the rest of folders will not grow dramatically in the > future? Correct. In terms of the amount of space consumed, maintenance doesn't change very much. > And If /root and /boot are the key folders to recover the system when > something went wrong, Neither of those are really important to recovering a broken LVM. The stuff in /, and /etc are. > Can we just put both of them or plus /etc into /dasd1 and leave the / > on the LVM? No, you can't (easily) separate /etc from /. It can be done, but it's not really recommended for anyone that is relatively new to Linux. Keep, /bin, /etc,, /lib, /lib64, /root, /sbin, and optionally /boot in the root file system. Everything else can and should be broken out into a separate file system, preferable on LVM LVs. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
