Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread R. Armiento
Lian Liming wrote: I have 35 GB hard disk space for installing debian/ustable.I am a common linux user and would like to do some web programming that means I need X winodows with KDE and LAMP(linux, apache, mysql, php). To limit damage upon system crash and better use the hard disk space,

Automatic package updating / upgrading

2005-05-09 Thread R. Armiento
Hi, I have a number of Debian servers that I will have to leave with very little maintance over a longer time period. I have tried to figure out a sane way of making some kind of autoupdating / upgrading to work. I am aware of the package cron-apt, as well as Clemen's secpack

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread R. Armiento
R. Armiento [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reason to put /usr on an own partition would be that IF the semi-frequent changes of this partition somehow would screw up the filesystem, you could still bring your system up in a semi-useful state using only / and repair things. Martin Dickopp wrote