| Bill Jonas on Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:48:58 -0500 |
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:01:55AM -0500, pinkee@cavegirl.org wrote: > What i intend to do is move /home and /var to the new drive, add an > additional user, and make it as easy as possible for two of the users to > get off the drive as the aquire their own storage space. I don't understand this part of the question. What's wrong with "tar -cpf somefile.tar ~"? > How would you handle the transition and do you thnk my current plans > are reasonable or dumb :) I didn't see your plans in this mail, but I vaguely recall you mentioning making a partition for each user. :) In any case, if you want to avoid your disk being taken over by the other users on the system, you can set quotas. Here's how I have my home system set up (100GB disk): ~# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 193821 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 124 62464+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 125 39807 20000232 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 39808 191837 76623120 5 Extended /dev/hda5 39808 43775 1999840+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 43776 83458 20000200+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 83459 103299 9999832+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 103300 189853 43623184+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 189854 190845 499936+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda10 190846 191837 499936+ 82 Linux swap ~# mount /dev/hda5 on / type reiserfs (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda6 on /usr type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda7 on /var type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda8 on /home type reiserfs (rw) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) I use hda2 for various things, including trying new distributions if the urge strikes me. There's a lot of swap configured because hey, I had really bad experiences occasionally on my (then) work laptop and early 2.4 kernels, and I have a good bit of RAM in this system. (Ever seen the console become unusable and the disk light shine steadily?) Yeah, I still use a /boot partition, out of habit I guess. It can make certain things easier, though. /var is 10 gigs because I had plenty of room, to allow me to put stuff in my document root (for sharing amongst different machines here), etc. You might want to make it larger; on the other hand, Apache can easily be configured to follow symlinks. (Got a large file? Stick it in $HOME and symlink from /var/www.) /usr, well, I install software there, and compile stuff there, so it should be big, too. I tend to keep lots of stuff (figuring out what to delete is annoying), so I went a little overboard on that. I suggest you give /boot its own primary partition (although I suppose it's not strictly necessary to make it separate) and put all your others in an extended partition. Nothing is more annoying than realizing you want to play with paritions sizes and realizing that you can't easily because you're out of entries in the partition table. (Way back when, I wanted to split the Windows partition again but couldn't because I already had four primary partitions.) I'd also suggest separate swap partitions; word is that they're faster than swap files. A couple of relevant (but not overly so) HOWTOs: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html mini-HOWTOs, more on-topic: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/index.html > I appreciate any input, and am more than willing to answer the questions > I forgot to address in this :) FWIW, anyway. :) -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ Developer/SysAdmin for hire! See http://www.billjonas.com/resume.html Attachment:
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