On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:35:11 -0500
Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 05 January 2002 02:17, you wrote:
On Sat, 17 November 2001, Franki wrote:
I recently stopped using Reiserfs on the server boxes, I swaped to ext3,
the reason being that recently I have had some data
tester wrote:
Anuerin G.Diaz wrote:
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durn! and i switched my boot partition into reiserFS. just read the magic page at
mandrakesecure and i think i will encounter trouble when updating the kernel. *should
have stuck with ext3, sheesh*
;-)
Well you do have XFS and
: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
For the purpose of a server machine, is REISER FS better than EXT2? Or
are there others that might be better? I'm using LM8.0 PowerPack, and
HAVE 8.1 PowerPack (haven't installed it yet since I keep hearing the
horror stories
2001 3:50 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
For the purpose of a server machine, is REISER FS better than EXT2? Or are
there others that might be better? I'm using LM8.0 PowerPack, and HAVE 8.1
PowerPack (haven't installed it yet since I keep hearing
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Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
you can do autoalicate... usually it will sk for a swap and root (/) and
home
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From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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yup... thats right!
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From: sarah white [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
alrighty... what flavor of linux are you running? i know that it does like
the swap, root
Miark,
You have confirmed what others have said.
I will set a swap file and leave the rest as /.
Thanx.
Hugo
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From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying
you can do autoalicate... usually it will sk for a swap and root (/) and
home
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From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Hugo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Sorry
Hi,
Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap
partition or can we just have a /.
TIA.
Hugo.
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From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions
Sorry for butting in, but I was wondering: do we have to create the swap
partition or can we just have a /.
Hugo,
As far as I know, you must. And even if you didn't technically
need one, you _should_ have one anyway.
Miark
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
slower then reiserfs for small files, but the difference is not
that noticable.
rgds
Frank
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Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2001 3:50 AM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Laying
Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap
partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is
That's a good choice.
Root (the / partition itself) contains directories and files needed by
the system. At minimum, it needs to have enough room to store
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote:
I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I
start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166,
64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number
of partitions, namely:
Root
i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would
almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u
can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home..
On Friday 16 November 2001 4:54 pm, you wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash
Hello antoine rivoire,
On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24 AM PDT, you wrote:
i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would
almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u
can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home..
I have
You meant swap rather than root, right Nick?
Miark
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From: Nick Andriash [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?
Hello antoine rivoire,
On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote:
I am about to embark on my Linux journey using Mandrake 8.1 but before I
start I have a questions about partitioning my HDD. I only have a P166,
64 MB RAM and a 2.1 GB HDD. Now I understand that I should have a number
of partitions, namely:
Root
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote:
Hello antoine rivoire,
On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:24 AM PDT, you wrote:
i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would
almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u
can't afford a
Hello Miark,
On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:47 AM PDT, you wrote:
You meant swap rather than root, right Nick?
Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap
partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS is
installed... The System Files, etc.? Skidley
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Nick Andriash wrote:
Hello Miark,
On Friday, November 16 2001 at 09:47 AM PDT, you wrote:
You meant swap rather than root, right Nick?
Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap
partition of about 130 MB or so. Is Root where the actual OS
Yes, sorry... I meant my Swap to be 2x my RAM so I would go for a Swap
partition of about 130 MB or so.
That's fine.
Is Root where the actual OS is
installed... The System Files, etc.?
No, there are only directories in the root directory, and /root is
basically the home directory of the
For the purpose of a server machine, is REISER FS better than EXT2? Or are
there others that might be better? I'm using LM8.0 PowerPack, and HAVE 8.1
PowerPack (haven't installed it yet since I keep hearing the horror
stories).
---
On Friday 16 November 2001 5:24 pm, you wrote:
i think mandrake can't do autoallocate with such small drive space. i would
almost recomend just 2 partitions with so little drive space, just cause u
can't afford a lot of free space on / ot /home..
by two partition i meant swap and /. i
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