THANKS to you too, Ken for the additional info...all of this really helps clear a lot things up for me....
Onward and upward....hopefully, Mark on 3/24/08 5:25 PM, Ken Moffat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've no issues with what Marius has said, but I'd like to add a couple more > things. 1. Having /home on a separate partition, and shared by all > my systems, is useful. But, all my current systems are LFS or clfs, > so totally under my control. On some of my more obscure architectures I've > loaded debian or ubuntu as a first stage, and my desktop settings sometimes > broke those. Among other things, user and group IDs have given me problems in > the past - of course, you can go with the group IDs you have in debian, if > that helps. 2. I agree with Marius that you have too many separate > filesystems. When I started LFS on an old machine dedicated to testing, I > went over the top in defining filesystems - even /usr/local was > separate (plus, of course, 2 or 3 spare filesystems for future builds). > The big problem with that is that programs are normally linked to libc - if > you upgrade a second system to a newer glibc, you probably prevent all the > other partitions from running in that system. Also, LFS itself installs to > /var so you can't really share that. Old 'nix hands used to recommend > putting /usr separately, but for most people it doesn't give any advantage. I > note you had a tiny '/' in the above example, but without special measures it > still has to be mounted r/w so you don't gain anything. /var isn't normally > used for a lot on a desktop (unless debian uses /var/cache for man pages or > package management). Similarly /tmp, unless you want to use that for building > packages (and if you do, it will be cleared out at reboot by the LFS > bootscripts). On a server I'd perhaps separate /var (swings and roundabouts - > when any active filesystem fills up to 100%, unpleasant things happen). > Actually, you could probably get a long way into BLFS using /dev/hda6 - more > space is always good, and on some of my boxes I have to build in /home for > things like boost which is somewhat bloated, but until recently I've managed > ok in 3GB. > ĸen -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
