Yes, I am in full agreement about NOT using the root filesystem for non-system data. In the department to which I belong, there's a bit of a religious war about this. But these systems will be under my control, and I fully subscribe to the notion of keeping application data separate from the system files and data.
That said, I haven't used "gparted" before - and am now going off to investigate. Thanks for the pointer! d On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not quite. During installation you can: > > mkdir /vicepa; touch /vicepa/AlwaysAttach > > However, I recommend against using the root partition for the reason > Esther Filderman already mentioned. > > Also because eventually some clueless user (or clueless daemon or > clueless...) will try to shove several terabytes onto your server, and > will fill up the partition. Better that user/daemon/whatever should > fill up an AFS only partition than your root partition. Filling up the > partition that AFS uses for storing its metadata on is not nice for > AFS, never mind a lot of other software. > > Please take the time to use gparted to shrink your root partition and > create one or more partitions for /vicep*. > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards > and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email > http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJOFnu//ZMSE7N39sRAlhaAJ4obOek4i34TUR320SnYx+qzqxz2ACgkyuR > a2EMpWEfibmvfXPM3nA2tcQ= > =CVQW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
