On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 12:09, David Talkington wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bret Hughes wrote: > > >I guess it is time to upgrade. This particular machine is the primary > >file server and intranet server where a significant portion of the apps > >that run our system lives. I have hesitated to wade into it but I guess > >I will test my recovery from amanda backups procedure and go for it. > > And take this opportunity to restructure your system so that upgrades'll > be easy. As I keep preaching, if all your data and custom software live > on a separate filesystem, and you scrupulously back up /etc, you can mix > and match not only Red Hat versions, but Linux distributions or even > operating systems without much hassle. And, as I also keep preaching, if > you _can't_ do this, you're at the mercy of vendor's whims.
Thanks for the tip. Good advice as always. Stuff is pretty well partitioned already I may infact reduce the number of partitions but still keep stuff seperated. The Software archive keeps growing but I have infact put alot of in on a seperate machine that serves as a gateway to our lab lan where we do all our installation testing and actual kickstart installs for new machines. I remenber when we bought these machines ( 2 identical ones ) at an aution for 3K each I though man, how am I ever going to use up 5 9GB drives. Not too hard when you start storing isos on line and lots of archived logs from 40+ machines. [bhughes@compaq2 i386]$ mount /dev/ida/c0d0p6 on / type ext2 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/ida/c0d0p1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/ida/c0d0p8 on /dumps type ext2 (rw) /dev/ida/c0d0p10 on /home type ext2 (rw) /dev/ida/c0d0p15 on /pub type ext2 (rw) /dev/ida/c0d0p9 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/ida/c0d0p7 on /var type ext2 (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622) /dev/ida/c0d0p12 on /pub/SoftWare type ext2 (rw) /dev/ida/c0d0p13 on /pub/iso type ext2 (rw) /dev/ida/c0d0p14 on /pub/backups type ext2 (rw) /dev/ida/c0d0p11 on /corporate type ext2 (rw) Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
