Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-10 Thread marc racal
On 5/9/05, Lian Liming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, 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

Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, 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, I want to know

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,

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
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. IMHO, the main

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:

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Vangel
R. Armiento wrote: Good point. But if you have put everything else that requires write access in separate partitions (eg., /var, /tmp) perhaps one can mount the whole '/' filesystem read-only? I have never tried that, but if you mount /usr read-only to protect your binaries, one would think that

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 9 May 2005, R. Armiento wrote: Good point. But if you have put everything else that requires write access in separate partitions (eg., /var, /tmp) perhaps one can mount the whole '/' filesystem read-only? I have never tried that, but if you mount /usr read-only to protect your

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
R. Armiento [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Dickopp wrote: IMHO, the main reason for having /usr on a separate partition is that it can be mounted read-only. Good point. But if you have put everything else that requires write access in separate partitions (eg., /var, /tmp) perhaps one can

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread Frank Copeland
On 9 May 05 09:30:14 GMT, Lian Liming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, 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

Re: Question about hard disk partition strategy for debian

2005-05-09 Thread dexter2
have a look at: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 17:30 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: Hi all, 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