From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 20:15:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070902201502.4e612739@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070902143233.GA9496@waltdnes.org>
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Hello Walter Dnes,
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 60801 488384001 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 1 62 497952 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 63 549 3911796 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda7 550 60801 483974158+ 83 Linux
What's wrong with making sda7 an LVM partition? Then you can allocate
space to the various directories as you wish.
One disadvantage of your system that springs immediately to mind is that
if a user manages to fill /home, it will stop the whole system working
properly because /var is also full.
--
Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 11: Terribly pleased
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-02 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-02 14:32 [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM* Walter Dnes
2007-09-02 19:15 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-09-02 20:00 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-02 23:20 ` Walter Dnes
2007-09-02 23:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-04 8:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2007-09-04 8:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-09-04 9:54 ` Remy Blank
2007-09-04 10:00 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-04 10:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-09-04 10:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-09-04 11:20 ` Remy Blank
2007-09-04 12:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-04 22:16 ` Walter Dnes
2007-09-04 12:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-04 22:42 ` Alexander Skwar
2007-09-04 22:08 ` Walter Dnes
2007-09-04 22:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-09-04 23:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2007-09-05 6:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-09-08 1:29 ` Walter Dnes
2007-09-04 9:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-04 10:05 ` Remy Blank
2007-09-04 9:30 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-04 10:14 ` Remy Blank
2007-09-04 12:01 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-04 12:40 ` Remy Blank
2007-09-04 12:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-04 22:40 ` Alexander Skwar
2007-09-03 6:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Dirk Heinrichs
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