Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: > > > I need a big /var for logs and databases (mysql currently). What if I > create small /var(cache|spool) and symlink the logs/databases to > /home/var?
better leave the logs behind as well. as for the database - you can give it a path to crate the database in that is not the default, can't you? but a symlink can do fine. > I tried to look into LVM. I can't see any option to use it in the > RedHat 7.3 installation: 1. Is it possible to create / /usr and swap > in the installation, leave the rest unpartitioned and setup LVM for > /var and /home manuelly? yup. create some extra partitions for it, mark them type 8e, and do the rest after the system is installed and you compiled a kernel and tools to support LVM (or better yet, look at EVMS, which I only started to learn, and seems simpler and more powerful, not to mention has a sexier GUI) we do the same here with RHL 7.2, Oracle 9i-RAC and a bunch of nodes looking at the same disk of raw devices made up of LVM volumes. if you don't put the root on LVM, it's no big deal. > 2. RedHat 8.0 has LVM support in the > installation, and probably supports my RAID card better (onboard > promise 20276). I know using .0 release on production servers is not > recommended, but are there any real issues with 8.0 (except Apache2 - > but I can downrage it manuelly using the 7.3 RPMS). big pain may come to you from libraries unknown. stick to 7.3 (or switch to Debian). 8.0 seems to be annoying even workstation users. if you like pain that pays off, do it on Gentoo. the new 1.4-rc installation images have LVM and other goodies built in. -- The casual observer Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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