Re: Partitioning schemes (was RE: Mailman....)
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:01:24PM +, Neil Ford wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:42:34AM +, Steve Mynott wrote: > >> > >> I don't think you can really blame the distribution (which allows you > >> to partition the disk how you want) for someone partitioning the disk > >> wrongly. > > > >Except that the box came to me like this. I intend to rectify this in > >a bit by scaping red hat off with a large trowel and installing > >something useful, but I'm still trying to figure out why *anyone* > >would partition it this way... :-/ > > > Because they were used to the BSD way of things where most stuff goes > in /usr and were expecting Linux to put it all in /home. One would expect VA Linux to be more used to linux than bsd. YMMV. :-) dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "I have no idea what that is. Thank goodness we didn't order three!" - some nameless induhvidual quoted in Dilbert Newsletter 31.0
Partitioning schemes (was RE: Mailman....)
>On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:42:34AM +, Steve Mynott wrote: >> "David H. Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > Oh, you're much too kind. My redhat box is disintigrating before my >> > very eyes. root partition filled up for no reason and, thus I looked >> > at the partition table: >> > >> > / >> > /boot >> > /home >> > >> > With home being the largest. >> > >> > What *were* they thinking when they configured this? >> >> I don't think you can really blame the distribution (which allows you >> to partition the disk how you want) for someone partitioning the disk >> wrongly. > >Except that the box came to me like this. I intend to rectify this in >a bit by scaping red hat off with a large trowel and installing >something useful, but I'm still trying to figure out why *anyone* >would partition it this way... :-/ > Because they were used to the BSD way of things where most stuff goes in /usr and were expecting Linux to put it all in /home. As an example, our BSD box is configured like so; Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 49583354411017678%/ /dev/ad0s1f 13350937 3817961 846490231%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 19815 61701206034%/var procfs 440 100%/proc So that might be one answer. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.binky.ourshack.org
