Thanks, Mark. That is very helpful! Sunny
From: Mark Post <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 11/27/2009 12:30 PM Subject: Re: what is the recommand when we do partitions during installation Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> >>> On 11/26/2009 at 4:08 PM, And Get Involved <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- >># df -h >>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >>/dev/dasda1 388M 119M 250M 33% / >>/dev/vg1/home 97M 4.2M 88M 5% /home >>/dev/vg1/opt 74M 21M 50M 30% /opt >>/dev/vg1/srv 1.2G 1.1G 100M 92% /srv >>/dev/vg1/tmp 291M 17M 260M 6% /tmp >>/dev/vg1/usr 1.2G 915M 183M 84% /usr >>/dev/vg1/var 245M 69M 164M 30% /var > > I know all the other folder is above / folder. > so this setting means except /home /opt /srv /tmp /usr /var > other linux folders are resident on dasda1 > And the size on dasda1 is fixed. Correct. > Does that mean the rest of folders will not grow dramatically in the > future? Correct. In terms of the amount of space consumed, maintenance doesn't change very much. > And If /root and /boot are the key folders to recover the system when > something went wrong, Neither of those are really important to recovering a broken LVM. The stuff in /, and /etc are. > Can we just put both of them or plus /etc into /dasd1 and leave the / > on the LVM? No, you can't (easily) separate /etc from /. It can be done, but it's not really recommended for anyone that is relatively new to Linux. Keep, /bin, /etc,, /lib, /lib64, /root, /sbin, and optionally /boot in the root file system. Everything else can and should be broken out into a separate file system, preferable on LVM LVs. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Scanned by WCB Webgate1 AntiSpam/AntiVirus email gateway. This message is intended only for the addressee. It may contain privileged or confidential information. Any unauthorized disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original email. Thank you. (Sent by Webgate2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
