From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRv6j-0007vR-O7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:27:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l82JKCPH005587; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:20:12 GMT Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l82JFAQD031870 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:15:11 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69E91AB3C3 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 20:15:10 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 20:15:02 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM* Message-ID: <20070902201502.4e612739@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070902143233.GA9496@waltdnes.org> References: <20070902143233.GA9496@waltdnes.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0cvs189 (GTK+ 2.10.14; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_Kbcuxh1y8PuKu8oplPkm5Dh; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: f14e8f77-9d6b-49b5-b18d-674d8e689b17 X-Archives-Hash: 26ff33b1bbb64e5bba88b2159858b6ab --Sig_Kbcuxh1y8PuKu8oplPkm5Dh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 11: Terribly pleased --Sig_Kbcuxh1y8PuKu8oplPkm5Dh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG2wu8um4al0N1GQMRAgnYAJ48DPZN4rDA3xRA5+F2Hv8Benf+0ACdHK6j tDOXkPmMVDH5VwykupY4cos= =N8+/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_Kbcuxh1y8PuKu8oplPkm5Dh-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list