partitioning new installation

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, John Van Ostrand wrote:

> 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.

    I move directories to a partition with space and symlink (or mount
    -bind) them to their original locations.

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