Hi Sandro Noted. Thanks for your advice.
Stephen At 10:36 AM 7/24/2002 +0200, you wrote: >Il giorno Wed, 24 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] cos� ha scritto: > >|From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >|To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >|Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:24:44 +0530 >|Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive >| >|Generaly it is advisable to put as many partitions as possible for easier >|administration and better performance. > > Well, I don't want to start the n-th partitioning schede flame war, but >having several partitions actually degrades the hard drive's performance. >Having data collected in different partitions causes files residing in >different directories, belonging to different partitions, to be found on >cylinders that are farther apart on the hard disk than they would be is the >directories where to be found on the same partition. This increases the >cylinder seek time when reading these files in succession. The pro in having >several partitions on the same hard disk is that the administrator has a >larger choice in configuring the system, he can choose to make some partitions >read-only, others read-write and so forth. And you can reinstall the system, >change the distribution, recover from a severe crash reformatting only some of >the partitions while saving some others (like the partition where the /home >directory is found, or where the /backup or /archive directories are found). >So, I suggest to reserve one or two partitions for /home and for /archive or >/backup os /usr/backup, as you wish, and then the rest could be mounted on a >single partition on /, or you could have a separate partition for /usr and/or >/opt, where large pieces of software are going to be installed that are not >critical to the system. And, of course, you should have the /boot and swap >partitions. > > Having separate partitions for /tmp and /var is seldom necessary and can >usually bring about unnecessary complications. On a small, 1,2 Gb hard disk I >have, a small /tmp partition, 64 Mb, that was never used over 3-4%, I had to >resize when I tryed installing StarOffice, that puts over 100 Mb of temporary >files over there. The size of /var depends very much on what software you're >going to use, if you're going to run NNTP or HTTP servers serving many >newsgroups, virtual domains etc., it can gobble up several Gb, otherwise it >will rarely use more than 10 Mb (FreeBSD used to create a 20 Mb "slice" for >/var by default, even on 2 Gb disks, if I remember correctly). In your case I >think you can partition as much as you want, anyway, since your hard disk is >so large (40 Gb). But remember that the more partitions you're going to have, >the higher the average cylinder seek time is going to be and, consequently, >the lower the performance of your hard disk is going to be. > > > > > Sandro > > > >-- >Bellum se ipsum alet > La guerra nutre se stessa > >Livio, Ab urbe condita, XXXIV,9 > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >_____________________________________________________________________ >Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
