Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-18 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 17/10/2002 13:04, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: Hi I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-18 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Fri, 18 Oct: Now when I think of it RedHat puts both WWW and FTP data in /var as well (/var/{www|ftp}). I used to move it to /home/www until now. Is it better to keep everything in /var? this data is mostly static, so I wonder why RedHat decided to

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: hdd partitioning: Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Fri, 18 Oct: I used to move it to /home/www until now. Is it better to keep everything in /var? this data is mostly static, so I wonder why RedHat decided to move

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:37:30 +0200 Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is /var/www preferred over /usr/lib/www, /usr/share/www, /usr/www, and so on? It's a matter of taste and philosophy. Unix/Linux systems allows the administrator almost infinite flexibility, which means you can put

Re: RedHat 8.0 vs. 7.3, LVM (was: Re: hdd partitioning)

2002-10-18 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: It seems a recurring motive for quite a few posters here (and elsewhere). I have not tried RH 8.0, so I should shut up, but just to remind those who have forgotten, it has long been the Common Wisdom not to try *.0 releases for anything

hdd partitioning

2002-10-17 Thread Sagi Bashari
Hi I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var . Is there anything that should stop me from doing that? Any performance issues? I'm using ext3. Sagi

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-17 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: Hi I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var . Is there anything that should stop me from

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-17 Thread Ehud Karni
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:45:39 +0200, Sagi Bashari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var . I divide the disk into 3

RedHat 8.0 vs. 7.3, LVM (was: Re: hdd partitioning)

2002-10-17 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 10/17/2002 1:04 PM, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: Hi I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var

Re: RedHat 8.0 vs. 7.3, LVM (was: Re: hdd partitioning)

2002-10-17 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: I need a big /var for logs and databases (mysql currently). What if I create small /var(cache|spool) and symlink the logs/databases to /home/var? better leave the logs behind as well. as for the database - you can give it a path to crate

Re: RedHat 8.0 vs. 7.3, LVM (was: Re: hdd partitioning)

2002-10-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 8.0 seems to be annoying even workstation users. It seems a recurring motive for quite a few posters here (and elsewhere). I have not tried RH 8.0, so I should shut up, but just to remind those who have forgotten, it has long been the Common Wisdom not to