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01-05-2004
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Re: Need advice on how to partition a 10gig hdrive
> zod wrote: >> I am looking for advice on how to partition a 10gig hardrive. >> >> What kind of partitioning theme should i use? >> >> For example what i am asking is how much should i use for / , home, and >> so on. >> >> Also the computer i have linux installed on will be used as a fileserver >> >> > Hi Rod; The only partition I would make is / and a swap about the same > size as your ram. Yeah, that's what I would do too. Use a journalled filesystem like reiserfs or ext3. -- Slackware9.1, 2.4.23, A7V333-XP2100+, Ti4200 RLU #272755 |
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01-05-2004
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Re: Need advice on how to partition a 10gig hdrive
> Hmm .. why would a bootloader need to support a file system? Isn't that > the kernels job? Boot loader need to be able to get the kernel started, make a FFS partition and see if your bootloader manages to start your linux. //Aho |
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01-05-2004
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Re: Need advice on how to partition a 10gig hdrive
> P.T. Breuer wrote: > > Hmm .. why would a bootloader need to support a file system? Isn't that > > the kernels job? > Boot loader need to be able to get the kernel started, The bootloader loads from a specified physical address on disk (usually it does it by indirection via data recorded in a short "mapfile", that itself is a contiguous 1KB block). It doesn't need any FS knowledge, nor can it have any, being only < 512B of machine code. > make a FFS partition > and see if your bootloader manages to start your linux. It'll do just fine. You can put the kernel anywhere you like. Possibly you are confusing the bootloader with the map constructor? Peter |
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01-05-2004
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Re: Need advice on how to partition a 10gig hdrive
J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
> P.T. Breuer wrote: > > Hmm .. why would a bootloader need to support a file system? Isn't that > > the kernels job? > Boot loader need to be able to get the kernel started, make a FFS partition > and see if your bootloader manages to start your linux. The bootloader knows nothing about filesystems and there's no need, it just knows the physical position of the kernel image on the hd. Thought I had already writen... -- Michael Heiming Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM |
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01-05-2004
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Re: Need advice on how to partition a 10gig hdrive
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:59:42 +0000, Leo (Bing) Whiteway wrote:
> The only partition I would make is / and a swap I'd create a separate partition for the public ftp/www/etc files. Besides the fact that I already stated that an upload can prevent the logfiles to be written, you want to be able to easily upgrade or reinstall your distribution without making a mess. Putting your non-OS files onto another partition will allow you to erase your OS and reinstall without fuss. Sybren -- (o_ Q: God, root, what is difference? //\ A: God can change the byte order on the CPU, root can't. V_/_ |
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