On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:09:51 -0600, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan's message on April 11, 2002 10:17 pm, stated: > > 13GB is probably a bit over the top for 'system' (non-user data) purposes. > If you like, you can probably make another 'data' partition on the 13GB > drive, taking some space from the other partitions. 500MB is way too big for > /boot; 50MB is probably more than you'll ever need. I would probably give > 1GB to /var, 5GB to /usr, 1GB to /tmp, 1GB to / (unless you plan on > installing many things to /opt, in which case you should allocate more), and > the rest to 'data'. Of course, it all depends on how you use your system. > > You may also want to look into LVM. LVM can treat both drives as one unit, > and it allows you to change partition sizes non-destructively. Diskdrake can > handle LVM creation. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > LVM? Is that a "virtual machine?" Sort of software RAID without fake RAID on > "hardware" like the cards that are too expensive? <grin>
Linux already has an excellent software RAID implementation. LVM is both a competing and complimentary technology to software RAID, depending on how you use it. You can, I hear, configure an LVM on top of a RAID setup. > I'll go Google-ing and read what I can find about that. I'll save you some trouble. Try http://linux.org.mt/article/lvm and http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm. > So for the two 60 GB hard drives (the one already in the box and the one that > I'm picking up today) I only really need about 8 GB? Actually, you probably won't even need 8GB. But it's always better to have too much than too little, especially when you're dealing with as much as 120GB. > Fine; but what the _h_e_ double hockey sticks do I do with the other 112 GB? > ;-) You can never have enough disc space :) > Thanks for the suggestions, I'll be doing a lot of reading before I > re-install the system I do believe. No problem. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it!" -- Linus Torvalds
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