Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-14 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/02/10 04:06, Simon Geard wrote: With a by-the-book LFS setup, /tmp is a tmpfs mount - an in-memory filesystem that's thrown away on shutdown/reboot. That's news to me. Maybe I've not been keeping up. Where in the

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-14 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 12:11 +, Andrew Benton wrote: On 14/02/10 04:06, Simon Geard wrote: With a by-the-book LFS setup, /tmp is a tmpfs mount - an in-memory filesystem that's thrown away on shutdown/reboot. That's news to me. Maybe I've not been keeping up. Where in the book does it

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-13 Thread Mike McCarty
stosss wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: [...] I think that a general maintenace helper guide, or even a section in the book relating to that, giving considerations which enter into philosophy of maintenance and how to go about keeping a

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-13 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Mike McCarty schrieb: [...] I have studied the recommended layout (I can't recall what it's called, now) Maybe FHS? http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Cheers, Jan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel wrote: Mike McCarty schrieb: [...] I have studied the recommended layout (I can't recall what it's called, now) Maybe FHS? http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Yes, that's it! Mike -- p=p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);};main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-13 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 14:04 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: partitions. Like, /var, /tmp, /usr/local, /home are all good candidates for being separate partitions. I like for /tmp to be in a separate partition from /home, so a user program which fills up /home/some-user/... doesn't make /tmp also

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
brown wrap wrote: Let me start over and maybe I can make things clear. I built the LFS using Centos 5.4, running with the old GRUB. Here is my system layout: /dev/sda has Centos with its swap being the 2nd partiton. /dev/sdb I use to download files and store things. /dev/sdc is two

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-12 Thread brown wrap
A little more. I didn't list the size of the disks because I didn't think it was important, but since the legacy GRUB may not be able to handle them: sda is small, I am not at the machine until Sunday or Monday. sdb is one TB that I just store stuff on. sdc is the disk with LFS on it. It is

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
brown wrap wrote: A little more. I didn't list the size of the disks because I didn't think it was important, but since the legacy GRUB may not be able to handle them: sda is small, I am not at the machine until Sunday or Monday. sdb is one TB that I just store stuff on. sdc is the

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-12 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 20:48 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: IMO, 750G is way too big for an LFS partition. Well, not *too* big, in the sense of causing problems. Unnecessarily big might be a better wording, and I'd agree. Separating data from applications is practically a necessity when it comes to

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-12 Thread brown wrap
installed a ZFS filesystem on the first partition and I'd hate to get rid of it, but I can. Anyway, I can't do anything with it right now. I'm not near the machine. --- On Fri, 2/12/10, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: From: Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: Booting problems again

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
brown wrap wrote: I wanted to install LFS on a fresh partition and this was the only unused SATA drive I had. I had small IDE drives, but this computer doesn't have an IDE interface. And when it comes to cost now $40 gets you double this size. I could repartition the drive, but I am trying to