Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/10/2011 2:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: for single user or / /home /media/big - /home/$user1/big /media/big - /home/$user2/big For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only. For special tasks I add e.g.

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 04:17 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 6/10/2011 2:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: for single user or / /home /media/big - /home/$user1/big /media/big - /home/$user2/big For a single user I switched from /

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2011 04:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] I don't like to insert a CD either :). I can't tell if you're telling a joke or being eccentric. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 04:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/11/2011 04:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] I don't like to insert a CD either :). I can't tell if you're telling a joke or being eccentric. Both :), kidding here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:28:32 -0700 Freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: The disadvantage is wasted space, since each partition has some expansion room that equals lost contiguous bulk space. (Reading up on LVM's is on my todo list.) You really should, there's no reason not to use LVM, especially

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:28:26PM +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:28:32 -0700 Freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: The disadvantage is wasted space, since each partition has some expansion room that equals lost contiguous bulk space. (Reading up on LVM's is on my todo list.)

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 iun 11, 09:23:08, prad wrote: in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: for single user or / /home /media/big - /home/$user1/big /media/big - /home/$user2/big For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only. For special tasks I add e.g. /music_productions to /mnt or /home. The advantage to have /

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 21:11:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do separated backups. And having tons of individual mounted directories won't speed up anything or won't have

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 00:54 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 10 iun 11, 21:11:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do separated backups. And having tons of

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:23:08AM -0700, prad wrote: in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there

hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread prad
in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data copying to do. now we've been experimenting

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread Chris Brennan
* prad p...@towardsfreedom.com [2011-06-06 09:23:08 -0700]: in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 11:23 AM, prad wrote: in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data copying to