[H-GEN] Need help during install, or just after ;)

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Martin Pool wrote:

> However, a contrary rule of thumb is that it's good to have lots of 
> free space on /, in case e.g. you need to use it while recovering
> from some problem.  So, I tend to make them ~100MB (on large disks),

You can always mount another partition/disk/nfs thing to do that ;)

> but with mostly free space.

> Another nice thing you can do if /var and /tmp are on separate partitions
> is mount / and even /usr readonly when you're finished messing around

Thnx for reminding me.  /usr is supposed to be readonly (with /usr/src a
seperate partition of course).

The stuff I posted before is the 'lore' of partitioning, but it is all
open to debate.

/ Should not be readonly as many /etc files (passwd for example) need to
be written to.

> with them.  (A test-to-destruction method of finding out which 
> programs abide by the FSSTND. :)  Another impediment to anybody (including
> yourself) damaging the machine.  
> 
> I'd agree.  Then symlink /tmp to /var/tmp and /usr/tmp as some
> silly programs insist on looking there.

I don't like that due to the speed issues associated with crossing a
symlink everytime u go to /tmp (assuming it is the link to /var/tmp).
Zen is doing this right now as an interim measure however.

> And use a recent kernel: apparently 2.0 and 2.1 are both getting 
> faster as time goes on.

Sure is.  2.1 was noticably faster on zen when last I ran it - and not
with wrt ide.
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at zen.humbug.org.au, robert at icc.net.au
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