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- From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Some interesting Novice Questions (not found in FAQ)
- Message-ID: <Conrad_Nobili-061192163037@nobili.harvard.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 22:15:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.183453.19306@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
- (H.J. Lu) wrote:
-
- > Please never, ever do this to yourself. Give you a hint. I had one of my fs,
- > /users, was trashed a week ago. But I could still manage to recover from my
- > / and /usr fs's. Think about you have /, /usr and /users in one fs and that fs
- > is trashed.
-
- The obvious trade-off though is that you must make some decision early in
- the life of your system about the sizes to which these partitions will each
- grow. It is very difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to resize
- partitions later, when you have a better idea how much space you need
- (yeah, like when you've just reached 99% on one file system ;-( ). For me
- this sort of trouble is much more painful than backing up. Besides, I
- think H.J. will admit that having a backup of his /users file system would
- have been a good thing, regardless of whether it was his *only* file
- system....
-
- I don't want to diminish H.J.'s advice -- just give another perspective on
- what is often a frustrating decision for the newcomer. I know *I* would be
- very unhappy now with any size decisions I would have made early on about
- separate file systems for my linux machine....
-
- Conrad C. Nobili N1LPM Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU Harvard University OIT
-