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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
