Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

o PV extends. There are surely even more ways to tell LVM where to store LVs, but these are the ones that come immediately to my mind. Kind regads Martin -- Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf. (Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Department Business Informatics and Applied Computer S

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

*have* to. In the latter case, LVM chooses where to put the LV. Regards Martin -- Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf.(Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Fakultät Wirtschaftinformatik und Angewandte Informatik Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik D-96045 Bamberg fon: +49 (951) 863-285

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

it might be worth putting /home or /tmp somewhere near > beginning of disk (outside cylinders). Similar for swap, > plus optimising of head-movement, etc... Again, see above. Regards Martin -- Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf.(Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Fakultät Wirtsc

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

them as small as possible and resize at threshold). EVMS has a LVM plugin so that it can manage LVM volume groups etc. Regards Martin -- Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf.(Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Fakultät Wirtschaftinformatik und Angewandte Informatik Lehrstuhl für Med

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

the use of small filesystems). Having said that, I would like to suggest that instead of using LVM, the top-poster might be better off by using EVMS (http://evms.sourceforge.net) since EVMS sports different UIs for all kinds of users (CLI, ncurses, X) and automates many tasks like resizing etc. Ki

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

uence at the Court in London ...? If you want more information on this, Bill Bryson's book "Made in America" is a rich source for that kind of things. Kind regards Martin Eisenhardt > English is however not my native language so if i'm mistaken please > excuse my yet-another

Re: [gentoo-user] Lock SSH user to their directory

Hi Khan, you might want to have a look into chroot or even jaildir. on an unrelated note, it is more or less customary to use your full name on this mailing list. Kind regards Martin Eisenhardt On Tuesday October 4 2005 10:53, Khan wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to give my friend s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

t; -- Remy > > > > > > Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf. (Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Department Business Informatics and Applied Computer Science Media Informatics Group D - 96045 Bamberg fon: +49 (951) 863 2856 fax: +49 (951) 863 2852 www: http://www.mneisen.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs behavior

On Friday 02 September 2005 19:41, Martin Eisenhardt wrote: > > Are you sure that the portmapper service is running on both the server and > the laptop? Check > > /etc/init.d/portmap status > > and start the portmapper if it is not already running. That reminds me

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs behavior

t is not already running. Regards Martin > Any input is appreciated. > > John -- Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf. (Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Department Business Informatics and Applied Computer Science Media Informatics Group D - 96045 Bamberg fon: +49 (951) 863 2856 fax:

Re: [gentoo-user] [NEWBIE ALERT] VMware 5.0 and a kernel upgrade

ot be needed. > > Am I correct here? most probably yes. I am using VMware 4, and it is the same issue there. Kind regards Martin -- Dipl.Wirtsch.Inf.(Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Bamberg University Media Informatics D - 96045 Bamberg fon: +49 (951) 863 - 2856 fax: +49 (951) 863 - 28