[H-GEN] partitioning again

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:48:29PM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > > If this is the case, then is it indeed better to just use a single
> > > partition for each disk (and maybe even md technology)?
> > Multiple partitions also let you switch between have 2GB for Windows,
> > 2GB for Debian to 1GB for Windows, 1GB for RedHat, 1GB for Debian,
> > 1GB shared /home, and so on.
> Sorry, my bad.  It didn't occur to me that anyone would have a non-unix OS
> on the box in the first place.
> :)

Windows and Debian, RedHat and Hurd, Free and NetBSD... Whatever.

Oh. Btw. Has anyone actually tried out VSTa? I've been semi-following the
mailing list for some time now for no reason I remember, but it was
recently mentioned on the linux-kernel list as a `free plan9'. Plan9 is
*very* cool, so I'm suddenly re-interested in this.

Anyone with some free time and an interest in alternative OSes care to do
a quick summary for those of us with the interest, but without the time?

(Hmmm. Interesting. I no longer cound Linux as an `alternative' OS. Hmmm.
`9 out of 10 triple j listeners prefer linux?' ? ;)

> > Partitions also let you do things like mount /usr read only; or not worry
> > about having other people put so much stuff in their home directories
> > that /var/log fills up.
> That is a good point but few ppl end up mounting /usr ro (as it is
> supposed to me) else the apt-gets fail because you forgot to remount it
> before proceeding.

I actually bugged Jason (the Apt author guy) about this a while ago,
and it's now fixed. Add:

  DPkg  
  {
     // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
     Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
     Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
  }

to /etc/apt/apt.conf. It's included in the example apt.conf in
/usr/doc/apt.

> > ...especially when you've got hard drives that have somewhere between
> > 100 and 1000 times the size of your average file free even at 95%
> > capacity. (200kb -> 20/200MB = 5% -> 400MB/4GB drives)
> I usually drop mine to 1% reserved for this reason :)  5% dates from an
> era when drives were much smaller than they are now.

Errr. I was actually just looking at how much I had free on sapphire at
the moment, completely neglecting the reserved area. :-/

(Meeting RMS rocked, btw. Jason P took notes, so if we beg and nag and
stuff enough, we might even get a summary of the evening...)

Cheers,
aj

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