On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 17:36, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> You forgot to say (1) how much space is _occupied_ (counting only files
> you care about, e.g., not including logfiles) on those filesystems, and
> (2) how much space is available elsewhere for temporary storage.

I forgot.  Sorry...

> _Important note_:  Debian's prepackaged 2.4 kernels rely heavily on
> initial RAMdisk (initrd) support, which their 2.2 kernels did not.
> During installation of the above kernel images, you'll be warned about
> the need to alter your bootloader to furnish a path to the initrd,
> before rebooting.  It's vital that you _not_ ignore that warning.  Here's 
> my /etc/lilo.conf:
> 
> lba32
> boot=/dev/sda
> root=/dev/sda5
> #install=/boot/boot.b
> install=menu
> map=/boot/map
> delay=20
> vga=normal
> default=linux
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>         label=linux
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-old
>         label=linuxold
>         read-only
>         optional
> 
> Notice the "initrd=" line:  I had to insert that when I started using a
> 2.4 kernel.  (My "linuxold" kernel is a tried-and-true 2.2 one, which
> doesn't rely on an inital RAMdisk for booting.)

Ok, I'll check this out.  But I'll be building my own kernel-2.4.20 from
source.

> Anyhow, "80% of the hard disk capacity" wouldn't tell me much even if
> you were talking about how much space your _files_ on /home were taking
> up, instead of the filesystem's total size.  What matters is how much
> byte count you need to find temporary storage for, and how much free
> space you have to put it there.  Let me give you an example from my own
> system:

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Thanks, Rick.  =)

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