Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Christoph Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:16:19 - Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In older days a /usr/local was recommended because this is where you would install all the alien software on your system. By alien I mean, Things that did not come prepared for

RE: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread Bob
- From: Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 1:11 PM Subject: Partitioning disk Hi Everybody, This question has been a topic of many discussions but I still do not understand the reason why people suggest to have separate partitions

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread Christoph Simon
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:16:19 - Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In older days a /usr/local was recommended because this is where you would install all the alien software on your system. By alien I mean, Things that did not come prepared for your system, or things you compiled yourself.

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:17:23AM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: Wouldn't it be nice to give it more use even today. Maybe someone can find a way to have the stable distribution in the main tree and the unstable in local. There seem to be many people using stable, but wishing to get also

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread kmself
on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:38:25PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: EB == Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EB On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:17:23AM -0200, Christoph Simon EB wrote: Wouldn't it be nice to give it more use even today. Maybe someone can

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:38:25PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: Is there a HOWTO (or sth similar to one) explaining how to setup sth like this ? I am not at all familiar with chroot (or chroot jails), but the idea of having stable and unstable on the same machine is very interesting. Any

Partitioning disk

2000-12-01 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi Everybody, This question has been a topic of many discussions but I still do not understand the reason why people suggest to have separate partitions of /usr /usr/local/ In early days when disks were small, this was the only choise, but now, why do not just have a 1 - 2G partition for the

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:11:13AM -0800, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Hi Everybody, This question has been a topic of many discussions but I still do not understand the reason why people suggest to have separate partitions of /usr /usr/local/ In early days when disks were small, this was

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-01 Thread Rick
also, /var can have a tendency to fill up rapidly, and if it's on the same partition as / there can be some pretty significant problems cropping up. rick Ethan Benson writes: On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:11:13AM -0800, Lazar Fleysher wrote: Hi Everybody, This question has been a

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-01 Thread kmself
on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:11:13AM -0800, Lazar Fleysher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Everybody, This question has been a topic of many discussions but I still do not understand the reason why people suggest to have separate partitions of /usr /usr/local/ In early days when disks

Re: Partitioning disk

2000-12-01 Thread scr
Lazar Fleysher schrieb: Hi Everybody, This question has been a topic of many discussions but I still do not understand the reason why people suggest to have separate partitions of /usr /usr/local/ In early days when disks were small, this was the only choise, but now, why do not just