On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Alex Hewitt <hewitt_t...@comcast.net> wrote: > I think when I set up my next system I'm going to make > the granularity of the file systems finer by dividing up > the mount points/partitions.
I should probabbly mention that when I wrote "partition" I actually meant "logical volume". I used to do it with simple partitions, which worked, but the occasional move/resize for reallocation required taking everything offline, and waiting while that happened. These days, I use LVM, and put everything other than the boot partition in LVs. I leave free space in the volume group. Growing an LV and the filesystem inside it only takes a few moments. It works well. As another example, on the GNHLUG Internet server, I've got several different LVs for each task. For example, logs get their own LV, as does the mail spool. This keeps runway process output (or DoS attacks) from filling up the entire system. A full root partition will often wedge everything, but a full mail spool just knocks out mail. Then you can SSH in and fix it. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
