On 07-Mar-2000 Bill Mote wrote:
> Ask the partition question to a dozen people and you're likely to get *3*
> dozen answers. I wish someone would set a standard by which we could all
> survive. I like the ease of having /, /boot, /home and swap which are the
> default partitions created by Mandrake, but I've often longed for a more
> granular scheme. I want to break out all the system partitions so that I
> can mount them read-only --> only the critical ones that shouldn't get
> written to on a daily basis. I want the flexibility to install applications
> and not worry about space. /home and /var I'd like to have separate. /var
> holds a *lot* of stuff. It's the print spool, mail spool, log receptacle,
> etc. I've seen systems unable to boot (in my older days <grin>) just
> because a bad process filled /var/log/messages =)
>
> Bill Mote
Well,
you can't have both ;-). Either you use a very granular partitioning scheme, or
you have the flexibility to expand. There is one solution, though: Get
Partition Magic or convince someone who has it to copy you its 'Rescue'
diskette (this diskette is all you'll need, the rest is fluff). 'PM' allows you
to virtually change *everything* in your partition table: move, resize etc. and
it works with Windos and Linux partitions. I've been using it for years now and
it has never failed me.
Regards
tom
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lothar Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 4:11 AM
> Subject: [newbie] Red Hat partition examples?
>
>
>> >From: "Potts, Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >You will be wasting a lot of space. / only needs about 50 MB. I sent
> this
>> >out
>> >last week. Try to find a Red Hat 5.0 install book and look up its
>> >examples.
>>
>> I have been searching extensively at the Red Hat site to try to find
>> the examples you mention, but I have been unable to find them. I don't
> know
>> how to get hold of the paper version. At the library it's been
> pre-ordered
>> for at least a year on, nobody I know has it, and I don't have the money
> to
>> buy it.
>>
>> If somebody on this list has that book, perhaps he or she could post
>> those examples? This would be very appreciated. Thank you.
>>
>> Ian
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