On Thu March 25 2004 00:33, Shawn wrote: > Following Curtis's lead... > <snip> > > However, I very much didn't want to loose my personal data if I had to > reinstall the server. So I separated /home, and gave it the remaining > space on my drive (80 GB). I also went one step further with with Apache > and moved my web root under the /home partition (and thereby presever my > web files as well if I need to rebuild the server).
That's a great idea. > > the /dev/shm device is setup by Gentoo, but doesn't take any space so I've > never really worried about it. One day I'll dig deeper into it's purpose. shm stands for shared memory and is a kind of filesystem held in RAM by the kernel. In 2.6, it is replaced by tmpfs. > > For the purpose of this message, I mounted my /boot partition. This is > purposely small, and is an ext3 file system. (/home and / are rieserfs). > The boot partition isn't mounted once the system is up and running (for Neat! How do you do that? > security), and only needs enough space to handle GRUB/LILO and a copy of > your kernel (if you setup fstab that way). The size recommendations for > the /boot partion are covered in the Gentoo install guide as well (there's > a LOT of good generic information in there). Yes, Gentoo is fairly well-renowned for their documentation. An excellent way to learn some of the deeper parts of Linux, although Gentoo-specific (unlike, say, LFS). Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
