Il giorno Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Evgeny Limarenko cosė ha scritto: |From: Evgeny Limarenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: Alessandro Selli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:13:29 +0200 |Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Partition arrange for hard drive | |Well, from my expirience I can say that actually you can use |/boot, swap and /. Three partitions is enough. The more partitions |you create, the less flexible your system is.
That depends. If you want to secure your system by having a read-only /etc and /sbin, but you must have a rw /tmp and /var, then you've got to have separate partitions. In this case, more partitions = more flexibility. | Usually it meens |that you can run out of free space on /opt or /usr ot /tmp |or /home or /var filesystems while you have plenty of free space |on another filesystems. On the other hand, if you have everything |on the / filesystem then that problem is gone. | This is true indeed. |In case of severe crash most likely you have to recover everything. | You should be able to save the users' home directoryes anyway, even if you're going to format everything else. |/boot should be of small size like 32Mb. Swap can be big enough, |something like twice an amount of RAM. The rest is for /. | This is the easiest implementation, but not the safest when you're setting up a server that is going to be accessed by many users, and that offers them several services. All this IMHO, of course. 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