On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:56:09AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
How is this better than a 500G filesystem mounted at /?
Try wiping the OS and re-installing (or installing a different distro
for that matter) with a 500G filesystem mounted at /... without
backing up your data and restoring
On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:45:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
You will always have a pretty good idea how much space / needs, it
contains /bin, /sbin, /etc, /root and /lib. Unless oyu are in the
habit of storing stuff in /root, 500M is
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Remy Blank wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves
everything you want to, and more, without the compromises.
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need
to have an initrd (or
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:30:55 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves
everything you want to, and more, without the compromises.
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
have an initrd (or initramfs).
Sshh!
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves
everything you want to, and more, without the compromises.
There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to
have an initrd (or
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
I wasn't aware of ext2online.
Then forget it again. Resizing ext2/3 is done with resize2fs nowadays.
Bye...
Dirk
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On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Remy Blank wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
[snip]
The only case I can think of that *requires* initramfs right now is
booting off a raid device
Strangely enough, I am currently booting from a software raid device,
so you don't need an initramfs for that either.
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
I wasn't aware of ext2online.
Then forget it again. Resizing ext2/3 is done with resize2fs
nowadays.
Oops, my bad.
It comes from not using ext2/3 on my own personal machines, and many
Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank:
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Do you even need one?
Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a
laptop) also be encrypted.
Right. I think I might have confused the necessity to have an initramfs
for LVM and the
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:19:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
emerged openoffice lately? :-)
It pretty much always fails if you have 5G in /var/tmp/portage. On a
laptop, that's 8% of my total disk space just sitting there free
waiting for the day I emerge openoffice again. Umounting /var to
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:14:12 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
OTOH, if you put /usr, /home, /var, /tmp and all the others on LVM, you
could just leave the root partition unencrypted, as it wouldn't contain
anything sensitive.
Apart from some contents of /etc.
--
Neil Bothwick
DANGER! DANGER!
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:54:44 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
Anything special if I put the LVM over a software raid?
No, that's what I do. / is on a RAID-1 partition, then I have an LVM
physical volume on a RAID-5 partition for /usr, /home et al.
--
Neil Bothwick
I wonder how much deeper would the
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:45:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
You will always have a pretty good idea how much space / needs, it
contains /bin, /sbin, /etc, /root and /lib. Unless oyu are in the habit
of storing stuff in /root, 500M is plenty. So put / on a regular
partition, everything
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:19:29PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Remy Blank wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
What you can't do, and to my knowledge no regular fs can do, is to
*reduce* a mounted partition
But who would want to do that? I always need *more*
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:08:04 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
You will always have a pretty good idea how much space / needs, it
contains /bin, /sbin, /etc, /root and /lib. Unless oyu are in the
habit of storing stuff in /root, 500M is plenty. So put / on a
regular partition, everything else in
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