Re: [gentoo-user] Partition setup?

2003-06-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2003 22:18 schrieb ext Joe: > Hello, > > I'm in the process of planning my Gentoo Linux install, and I was > wondering if anyone had some input on setting up the partitions? I have > 2 drives, one 15Gb and a 40Gb drive. I will be running an ftp server on > this box, and

RE: [gentoo-user] Partition setup?

2003-06-19 Thread Essien Ita Essien
  All... the posts are really helpfull you know, the last one especially. I also feel that you'll need to create a partition for /home/ftp (is that the ftp home directory) I think the rule of thumbs generally is to keep your /usr and /var and /home as seperate partitions... and any other fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition setup?

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Principito
Parition setup is a purely religous thing, but I can give a few good pointers on why to give /usr it's on partition. For one /usr filling up is ok, however if / fills up that is a bad thing. You could also set /usr to be read only and remount it as rewrite only while merging a new package. This wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition setup?

2003-06-18 Thread Alan
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:16:22AM +, Mark Fisher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 22:58, Stroller wrote: > > > Some folks prefer to have /usr on a separate partition - it's such a > > popular choice that I'm sure there must be a very good

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition setup?

2003-06-18 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 June 2003 22:58, Stroller wrote: > Some folks prefer to have /usr on a separate partition - it's such a > popular choice that I'm sure there must be a very good reason, but I've > never worked out (or researched, I'm too lazy) what

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition setup?

2003-06-18 Thread Stroller
On 18/6/03 9:18 pm, "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I¹m in the process of planning my Gentoo Linux install, and I was wondering > if anyone had some input on setting up the partitions? I have 2 drives, one > 15Gb and a 40Gb drive. I will be running an ftp server on this box, and using > it

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition setup?

2003-06-18 Thread Alan
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:18:40PM -0500, Joe wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in the process of planning my Gentoo Linux install, and I was > wondering if anyone had some input on setting up the partitions? I have > 2 drives, one 15Gb and a 40Gb drive. I will be running an ftp server on > this box,

[gentoo-user] Partition setup?

2003-06-18 Thread Joe
Hello,       I’m in the process of planning my Gentoo Linux install, and I was wondering if anyone had some input on setting up the partitions?  I have 2 drives, one 15Gb and a 40Gb drive.  I will be running an ftp server on this box, and using it for miscellaneous other tasks.  If anyone