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 1IRysS-0001dQ-LE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:29:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l82NLh14025774; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:21:43 GMT Received: from mailout1.igs.net (mailout1.igs.net [216.58.97.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l82NHTKG020953 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:17:29 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i209-195-93-235.cia.com [209.195.93.235]) by mailout1.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 44B7A7937 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 14:04:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:20:47 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 19:20:47 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM* Message-ID: <20070902232047.GA29278@waltdnes.org> References: <20070902143233.GA9496@waltdnes.org> <20070902201502.4e612739@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200709022201.00036.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200709022201.00036.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: de9e813a-1df2-410d-9781-ead4572c8c2e X-Archives-Hash: 82aeb3c530530db0a592e5376b7db288 On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:00:50PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote > Am Sonntag, 2. September 2007 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > > > 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. This setup is for a desktop PC that has "a user" not "a bunch of users". I am *NOT* running a server with a bunch of users. If I was, I'd be using quotas to prevent the problem described above. > Another one is filesystem corruption, or even human error. Placing > everything into one single filesystem is a Bad Thing (tm). I.e. you > can't mount vital parts of the system ro to prevent accidental > deletion, or keep data or home volumes safely unmounted until they > are really needed/accessed (by use of the automounter), a) I'm running a home desktop PC, not a corporate server. If the "users" (i.e. me) can't co-ordinate with each other, then I've got a badly split personality b) I have the system backed up on a 320 gig external USB drive c) "automount" problems seem to crop up often in this list d) more partitions means more things to go wrong > you can't use different filesystems for different purposes, etc. You mean like ext2fs for a small rarely-written-to partition and reiserfs for a gigantic partition with lots of files? > Kids, don't try this at home :-) On the contrary, do this at home, but think twice before trying it on a corporate server. -- Walter Dnes In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list