[H-GEN] partitioning again

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

On Wed, 12 May 1999, James McPherson wrote:

>  > blake has 8 partitions but all other boxen have 1 each :)
> 
> well from an enterprise point of view (ie we run oracle ;>), that sort of
> scheme is laughable because there are just too many things which can go wrong
> if there is not enough space - we can't afford that possibility. On the

[snip]

> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0      57143   19234   32195    38%    /
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1     962582  399296  505532    45%    /usr
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4     448143  207353  195976    52%    /var
> swap                 1069220  252500  816720    24%    /tmp
> /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0     480919  126977  329897    28%    /opt
> /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1     962582  476992  437461    53%    /home

James, my partitioning scheme is similar to yours:

blake[5:59pm]:~>df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1              15856   14111      915     94%   /
/dev/hda3            1189542  602476   525604     53%   /usr
/dev/hda4             726443  534353   154568     78%   /opt
/dev/hdb1              63885     142    60444      0%   /tmp
/dev/hdb2             127361   32789    87995     27%   /var
/dev/hdb3             634724  182660   419279     30%   /var/spool
/dev/hdb4             385923  273690    92300     75%   /home

So, the fact that it is on only 2 disks does not in itself make it
laughable, even in a commercial environment, if the available disk space
is sufficient for the application.

> While we're at it, what do people think about Solaris' use of tmpfs for
> virtual memory? This what we're seeing at the moment on this particular
> machine:

I think the tmpfs idea is an excellent one.  Apparently a Linux
implementation is in the works (tm).
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
                                robert.brockway at uq.net.au
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