Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning - ideas
hi ya arnt
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > have lots of nice fans ... at least 3 chassis fans
> > 2 by the cpu/power pully and add one or tw more fans in the front
> > of the (midtwoer) case
miss spellingz galore :-)
> .._silent!_ fans.
fans are usually quiet... it's the air that's noisy, air that wanna pass
thru them tiny, rough edged holes :-)
> >
> > linux can read/write windoze files ( msdos, vfat ) directly
> > - do NOT use linux to edit/delete ntfs files on windoze
> >
> > - ie.. if you're using vfat, you wont need the 10G of shared
> > space
as you saw from the posts ... linux can read/write some default
windoze partitions
fat --- >>> i wouldn't use ( limited 8.3 filename format )
vfat ( aka fat32?? ) ( i dont know all the gory details
ntfs ... not writeable by linux
other fmts ??
> > 10GB /windows /dev/hda1 - find out how much space you're
> > using now and double it??
>
> ..leave it alone, he's gonna _want_ 30GB for linux. _Eventually_.
> He just needs to experience the why's for himself, as we all do. ;-)
yup ... best teacher is "experience" in moving thingz around
or why machines stop working all of a sudden
> > 256MB / /dev/hda2 - keep small as possible
> > 256MB /tmp /dev/hda3 - keep small as possible
> > /dev/hda4 extended partition - not for data
> > 512MB /var /dev/hda5 - keep enough for logs
>
> ..ditto for /var/log , /var/www is a good place to test and develop
> your web site buyers stuff, but /var/www/* can also be symlinked from
> /home/aoga/work/websites/* , myself, I just create new users for
yup .. except i have my stuff as .../httpd/html.user for example
and everything is live in the user's html tree
( didnt like "work/websites" :-)
> /dev/hdb5 73G 54G 15G 78% /mnt
humm ... bad idea to use /mnt as a specific parttition's mount point
- gets confusing for /mnt/floppy or /mnt/cdrom or /mnt/firewire
> > 512MB <swap> /dev/hda7 - add memory if you need more mem
>
> ..depends on what you do, I use 2 times the maximum supportable
> by the main system board, to minimize down time on upgrades.
too much swap being used ... implies a very very slow system ...
- if 256MB or 512MB of swapp is used ... add more memory
( it'd run 10x faster ... with memory instead of swap space )
> > move /var/www to /home/www so that user data is separate from system
> > /var files
>
> ...and symlink'em... ;-)
a test :-) of understanding what one just did :-)
> > move /usr/local to /home/local to keep user stuff away from system
> > stuff
>
> ..puts everything in one boat, ok, _not_ how I do things. ;-)
yes ... that way i can just move one boat /home to another boat
if one boat is erratically misbehaving
all my systems are configured identically ... ( partition wise )
- trivial to make any machine become another machine
( web serbver, email server, fw, dns, backups ... blah .. )
> ..keep an eye out for journal failures with 'cat /proc/mounts \
> |grep " ro ", you in _some_ cases want a prompt reboot and fsck,
> both Debian and Red Hat will merrily keep you unaware of it on
> 'mount -v | grep ro ', for _days_.
good idea !!
> ..in /etc/fstab, some ext3fs'es has "errors=remount-ro" in the
> options column, consider "errors=panic" for important stuff you
> dont wanna lose,say isp traffic logs etc, and toss in "panic=20"
> or some such in your bootloader setup.
yup
> > for various flavors of partition schemes and reasoning
> > http://www.Linux-1U.net/Partitions
c ya
alvin
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