partitioning new installation

[John Van Ostrand]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 21:23 -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> > Even with LVM I tend to be generous with / because it's much harder to
> > grow.
> 
> Not really, just boot from any recent KNOPPIX which has mdadm (if needed) and
> all the LVM tools.

Yeah, but try doing that from 100KM away.

> > For servers I want to compartmentalize in case one filesystem fills up.
> > I'm also an older UNIX quy who wants dynamic file systems (/tmp, /var,
> > etc) on separate file systems.
> 
> I tend to do this with workstations too.

I used to as well but then I got tired of looking at free space in other
filesystems when I really needed it in /home or /usr/src. 

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