Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:02:06AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote:
> > If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs
> > damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can
> > without hosing your connection), remount ro and give it a shot. (Having
> > /var and /home on separate partitions would help minimize problems.)
> > Not recommended though.
>
> Having /var and /home on separate partitions is not
> advisable/recommended?
His sentence "Not recommended though" did not refer to the sentence on
parentheses, but the sentence before that outside parentheses.
>
> Is that what you are saying, the "/" and "/var" and "/home" all be on
> one filesystem? If that is the case, why not "/tmp" and "/usr" and
> "/usr/local", huh?
>
> I have to disagree with you.
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2 975136 127620 847516 14% /
> tmpfs 1038080 0 1038080 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1 135468 18781 115242 15% /boot
> /dev/sda7 975104 1456 973648 1% /tmp
> /dev/sda6 5845408 1702848 4142560 30% /usr
> /dev/sda5 3893504 1682560 2210944 44% /var
> /dev/mapper/datavg-homeLV
> 31441920 13232872 18209048 43% /home
> tmpfs 10240 736 9504 8% /dev
> /dev/mapper/datavg-usr.localLV
> 22787256 2645304 20101952 12% /usr/local
>
> That right there is a typical installation. I am guessing you have never
> actually supported large numbers of users. This particular machine hosts
> 15 domains and plus their sub-domains.
If anything, he's quilty of not having a team of readers looking for
ambiguity in his written words. But how many of us do that, except
maybe professional writers?
-- hendrik
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