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- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Some interesting Novice Questions (not found in FAQ)
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 05:13:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov09.051333.1361@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <dingelde.720952611@jocki> <1992Nov5.183453.19306@serval.net.wsu.edu> <Conrad_Nobili-061192163037@nobili.harvard.edu>
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- In article <Conrad_Nobili-061192163037@nobili.harvard.edu> Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:
- >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....
-
- I'll ditto the latter. I started out with Xenix and we routinely
- installed new sites with 2 partitions of about 30 Meg each. Worked out
- fine until the root partition was totally full and /u was not. Trying
- to make a decision on this is a pain in the butt. With 1 large
- filesystem it's pretty easy to back it up, and shove it on a bigger
- disk, or add another disk. 1 disk with 2 or 3 filesystems, and you'll
- *NEVER* have the free space on the filesystem you need it on.
-
- Go ahead with efs *BUT* *BACK IT UP* if it's important.
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