Do you have every directory under / defined as its own filesystem?  /etc, 
/boot, /var, /opt, /lib, etc.. ?

>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:15 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David
Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>>  The main reason is we have a limited about of disk to allocate and we
> will
>> have a hard time saying X gigs go to /opt, Y gigs will be needed for
>> /home, etc.
> 
> Then put those secondary directories into LVMs and mount them at boot
> time in /etc/fstab -- no problem there. It's really just / that we're
> worrying about here. For a manageable system in a large configuration, /
> is (and should be) small and rarely changed -- all it has to do is
> provide mount points for other filesystems, either in LVM, network, FCP,
> etc.
> 
> In most cases, / contains enough to get the system up and on the network
> to the point where you can work with it. Once you can do that, you can
> do anything else you want to do fairly easily. 
> 
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