Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Scott Mazur
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition. I partition every HD with at least one backup partion (usually mounted on

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition. I partition every HD with at least one backup partion

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:42, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition. I partition every

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 28 Jun 2004 6:06 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Cant answer that. I requested info about partitions and processed those into what I provided. No reason other than I didnt know enough to do it diffenently. The only reason for having a backup partition was because that was what was left

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Scott Mazur
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:06:27 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 11:42, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup Cool! Someone else

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 28 June 2004 12:50, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 28 Jun 2004 6:06 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Cant answer that. I requested info about partitions and processed those into what I provided. No reason other than I didnt know enough to do it diffenently. The only reason for having a

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 28 June 2004 12:56, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:06:27 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 11:42, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12 24601004

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Scott Mazur
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:14:43 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 12:56, Scott Mazur wrote: As another personal preference, I always create a single partition mounted as /system at 1g size. I use this partiton to keep custom scripts (like backup/recovery and setup), copies

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Frank Bax
At 03:59 PM 6/27/04, John Drouhard wrote: I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up. Are you the only user and you have no remote access (apache, mail, ftp, etc) services running? Go with one big partition. Multiple partitions are for

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 28 June 2004 23:24, Frank Bax wrote: At 03:59 PM 6/27/04, John Drouhard wrote: I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up. Are you the only user and you have no remote access (apache, mail, ftp, etc) services running? Go with

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 28 June 2004 15:28, Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:14:43 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote On Monday 28 June 2004 12:56, Scott Mazur wrote: As another personal preference, I always create a single partition mounted as /system at 1g size. I use this partiton to keep custom

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Glenn
On Monday 28 June 2004 11:50, Richard Urwin wrote: http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexr eq=viewarticleartid=222 Or if that splits badly: http://tinyurl.com/2ph56 Thanks for that link. Why didn't I know about this site long ago g? -- 18:36:46 up 2

[newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-27 Thread John Drouhard
I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up. Currently I have a 40 GB: /dev/hda1 275 MB /boot /dev/hda5 6.44 GB / /dev/hda6 8.64 GB /usr /dev/hda7 400 MB swap /dev/hda8 11.06 GB

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-27 Thread robin
John Drouhard wrote: I got a new hard drive today. (yay!) It is 160 GB Maxtor and I don't know how to chop it up. Currently I have a 40 GB: /dev/hda1275 MB/boot /dev/hda56.44 GB/ /dev/hda68.64 GB/usr /dev/hda7400 MBswap /dev/hda811.06 GB

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:02:44 -0400 robin wrote: You might want to have another partition for /etc No, do not do that. The configuration files in /etc must be avaiable during boot and should always remain as part of / Charles -- You cannot use your friends and have them too.

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:02:44 -0400 robin wrote: You might want to have another partition for /etc No, do not do that. The configuration files in /etc must be avaiable during boot and should always remain as part of / Charles Normaly, you need /bin, /sbin, and /etc

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-27 Thread John Drouhard
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:30:51 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:02:44 -0400 robin wrote: You might want to have another partition for /etc No, do not do that. The configuration files in /etc must be