Hi Ron,
Well, for the moment I've got it set so shouldn't run out of space too soon.
While fixing this up and continuing to learn, my Windows 98 system crashed. I
logged off the net, went to bed and this morning, screen was in standby mode.
Not set for that is software or BIOS, and wound up with both FAT tables
corrupted. Fortunately, my emergency stuff worked, (this time anyway). LINUX
box is so stable that to get it to act similarly it has to run out of disk
space or I have to take a hammer to it. Now why Microsoft can't/ won't do the
same is almost criminal. (My opinion is they've discovered folks will purchase
something several times for minor fixes so they intentionally don't give us a
finished product right off.)
Well, anyway, I found some text on what you said about partitioning which went
contrary to what I had used originally. Guess the gurus knowledge depends on
the guru. (Actually I think the first thing I read was very old and drives up
to 1 Gb were considered extreme at that time.)
I'm going to have to exit this list and the expert one too and just go to the
archives. I'm getting a couple of hundred emails a day and simply can't keep
up. I hate that 'cuz I get so much good information not in the books and
manuals. Well, that's what the archives are for. But I will keep the group
address in my local address book.
B. B.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: Ronald A. Yacketta
>
> true
> /usr and /var even /home (if you hae users) will tend to grow faster than /
>
> /usr holds the rpm database and most generaly (not in ALL cases) all
> installed software
> /var houses your logfiles (that grow and grow and grow (especialy if you
> have loggng in your ipchains or firewall))
> /home well thats a bit obvious, got users they got files and most users
> (again not ALL) are pack rats.
>
> Ron
>
> R_Yeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/28/99 01:17:21 PM
>
> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: (bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC)
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Root Password Problem
>
> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Toyswins wrote:
> > I think I discovered the problem. Hinted at it the other message. My /
> partition
> > ran out of space. It got weird with signing in and some other stuff, so
> might have
> > something to do with it. A 347 Mb one isn't big enough. I've changed it
> to 1.2
> > Gb, and if that doesn't work, nothing will. I've got a 400 and 212 Mb
> drives as
> > hdb and hdc that hold /usr, /home, swap and so forth.
>
> I do not have a direct solution for your problems, but isn't a 1.2Gb
> partition for / a little too big compared to the other partition?
> The directories under root are pretty static in terms of size. I would
> have thought that you would want more space in /usr or /home. (Perhaps
> someone more knowledgable could chip in here).
>
> -- Ronald
