Hi, On Saturday 18 August 2007 11:36, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > In <URL:http://wiki.skolelinux.no/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch/HowTo>, > under 'Resize Partitions'. I wrote it.
Thanks for the pointer and the doc there :)
> As the partitions become
> large fsck time grow exponentially larger, and backup restore times
> grows linearly.
Whats the time difference when fscking three 20gb partitions compared to one
60gb partition? Backup also takes exactly the same time.
> Very large partitions will give you problems in
> emergencies.
Which?
> >> In that case, how do you have more home space? Is it by creating
> >> home1, home2, etc.? Is there any documentation for how to do that, and
> >> how to get users' homes onto those different partitions?
> Yes, adding home1 ... homeN is the intended way to do it.
And then you spent *manual* time/work to (re-)assign different home
directories to different partitions?
I really fail to see the advantage, but I wouldn't be too surprised if you
could explain ;-)
regards,
Holger
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