Re: Installing on a small root partition
I have had cases with repeated reboots, and ext3 recovers quite properly
from almost every one. Obviously it can not handle serious hardware
failure, but if all the hardware is good it will automatically restore
the disk and then continue as normal.
David
On Thursday 06 July 2006 06:33, Anil Gupte wrote:
> Have you tried 20-30 per day? Everyday? That is the kind f stuff we have
> to deal with here. Sometimes it is just fluctuation in the voltage and
> that is enough to reboot the system.
>
> Are you doing a standard install? Or do you have anything different in
> terms of partitions or file systems?
>
> Thanx,
> Anil Gupte
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "charles norwood" <chasnorw@pacbell.net>
> To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Installing on a small root partition
>
> > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> >> On Monday 03 July 2006 07:10, Anil Gupte wrote:
> >> > BlankNeed help and advice.
> >> >
> >> > I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have
> >> > done two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about
> >> > what was going on - I mostly accepted the defaults.
> >> >
> >> > This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power
> >> > losses. So, my plan is to have a small root partition (say about
> >> > 100MB), and make it a read-only partition. This way, there will be no
> >> > corruption on constant reboots. The apps, logs etc will be on a
> >> > separate partition. The read-only partition idea was a suggestion
> >> > from a Linux guru, as a solution for inodes etc being corrupted and
> >> > the system not booting properly.
> >> >
> >> > I tried the Debian installer, but it fails, and I am pretty sure that
> >> > is because the root partition is small. Is there any way to tell the
> >> > installer where to put which files? I am installing from a DVD
> >> > containing Sarge.
> >> >
> >> > Any suggestions will be welcome. Also, any advice on the read only
> >> > root partition will be helpful.
> >> >
> >> > Thanx,
> >> > Anil Gupte
> >>
> >> I have a large number of small systems running a stripped down version
> >> of Debian, and they are all build using ext3. That way unless there is
> >> a really serious corruption they journal is replayed when the system
> >> reboots and it comes up cleanly. Many of these systems are in remote
> >> locations and I can count on one hand the number of times over a period
> >> of 2 and a half years when they have not come up automatically.
> >>
> >> David
> >
> > I'm running a full Sarge installation that has recovered cleanly from
> > about six power losses.
> >
> >
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