Hey, thanks for the practical example, Michael. I'll have to do some digging into reiserfs to see what that's all about, and why I should use it. It's one of the journalling file systems, right?
julian. ==================== At 12:15 AM 12/22/01 -0600, you wrote: >At 05:07 PM 12/21/2001 -0900, you wrote: > >On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 16:37, Julian Opificius wrote: > >> Thanks for the input, Civileme. > >> > >> Where would I put the public access directory? Under /home, say > >> /home/public, or is there some other traditional place? > >> If I do this, presumably I could put /home on a separate /dev/hda'n' > >> partition, or, if Santa brings me the new 80G HD I asked for, make it > >> /dev/hdb. Is this reasonable thinking? > >> > >> j. > >> ==================== > >Yep, this is true. We have 3 separate drives in our server, which we set up: > >hda -- ext2 -- 6.4 GB IDE -- system disk (/usr,/, /var, /tmp) >hdb -- reiserfs -- 20 GB IDE -- user data drive (/home) >hdd -- reiserfs -- 20 GB IDE -- backup drive, iso downloads (/backup) > >Primary reason we went with reiserfs is because fsck's of 20 GB partitions >take a while if the system crashes, and we typically have many very small >files, as opposed to very few large ones. > >Michael > >-- >Michael Viron >Registered Linux User #81978 >Senior Systems & Administration Consultant >Web Spinners, University of West Florida > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ============================== Julian A. Opificius. 802 Fawn Road, Elk River, MN 55330. Home: 763.441.1291, Cell: 763.360.5919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3268206 ==============================
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