Various Topics on Linux

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Leo (Bing) Whiteway wrote:

> 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.

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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.

//Aho

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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,

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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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...

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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
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