Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-19 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Hmmm, does incremental backups sound good in this situation? Anyone? Regards, Onno At 07:44 PM 1/18/00 +, John Gay wrote: I've got some good suggestions, and apparently raised a few questions as well. Let me outline my reasons for asking and what I hope to do: I've got a CD-RW. I plan to

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-19 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Wed, 19 Jan, 2000 à 10:17:54AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote: well. AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are /bin, /sbin, and /etc. Are you sure you don't need /lib and /dev ? -- ( - Laurent PICOULEAU - ) /~\ [EMAIL

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi, On Wed, 19 Jan, 2000 ? 10:17:54AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote: well. AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are /bin, /sbin, and /etc. Are you sure you don't need /lib and /dev ? You're right; you

New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread John Gay
I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M for /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and some

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
I recently got a new 13G hard drive. I've installed it as hdb, and moved my CD-RW to hdc. At the moment I've got a 6G drive with 2G for WindowsNT, 100M for /, 1G for /home and 2G for /usr. I really need more room for both /home AND /usr, but I also need more space for /var and /opt and

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Onno Ebbinge
Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought that you split the partitions by long term usage: 1- 2 GB / 1- 2 GB /var 1- 4 GB /var/spool rest on /home Then I link /tmp

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Peter Ross
Currently I have two partitions. 1. / 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using symlinks. The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition any time I want and still have all my important stuff. Pete

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:01:07PM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote: Sometimes I don't understand the stratagies used in disk partitioning. Me neither, why are we making things so complicated and inflexible? My partition scheme is as follows: 1.5 GB / Rest/vol/0 /home is a link to /vol/0/_home.

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread John Gay
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Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Peter Ross
On 18-Jan-2000, Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Ross wrote: Currently I have two partitions. 1. / 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using symlinks. The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition