Re: [aclug-L] BRAND SPANKIN' NEW HDD!!!!!!!!!

[Jeremy Johnstone <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I kinda agree with that but, I have had to many times where I had excess
one place and not enough elsewhere and I never really like using symlinks
for that purpose. Don't know why, just something weird about me.

On 17 Sep 1998, John Goerzen wrote:

> I disagree with this, myself.  I reccommend one large partiion only if 
> your disk is less than somewhere between 500 meg and 1 gig.
> 
> The benefits of multiple partitions are:
>  * Easier migration between OSs, esp. between distributions
>    (ie, if /home is on a separate partition, things become very easy)
> 
>  * If a vital system area of one partition is corrupted, you do not
>    lose all data -- only the data on that particular partition.
> 
>  * Filesystem checks can be faster if you have to check only one small
>    partition instead of one large partition.
> 
> Also, if you ever do find out that you are running out of space on one 
> particular partition, symlinks can quickly solve the problem.
> 
> In short, while there may not be immediate advantages, there are
> definite advantages down the road to using separate partitions.
> 
> John
> 
> Jeremy Johnstone <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I used to follow the belief that you should use multiple partitions for
> > each major group. But, if you already have a really big HD, I feel that
> > one can be better than many (you never know when you may need to make your
> > /var or something really big and there doesn't seem to be a FIPS / PQMAGIC
> > for ext2 file systems).
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Jesse Kaufman wrote:
> > 
> > > what partitioning scheme should i use?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 9:46 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [aclug-L] BRAND SPANKIN' NEW HDD!!!!!!!!!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >Indeed, this will work.  Another solution is to copy over only /home
> > > >and /etc, taking note of /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab as two that may
> > > >have been modified since the old system.  If your system is setup
> > > >properly and follows the FHS (RedHat is compliant enough for this to
> > > >work), this will get all of your system configuration information
> > > >plus your own data files.  A few other directories that some people
> > > >need to copy include /root, /opt, and /usr/local.
> > > >
> > > >John
> > > >
> > > >Bob Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > >
> > > >> sohel wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Hi Jeremy,
> > > >> >
> > > >> > So is there a way to get around to this problem? What would you
> > > >> > recommend?
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >> Uh.. Why make this so difficult?  Seems to me you could just add the
> > > >> hard drive to the box, crank up linux, use fdisk to set up your new
> > > >> drive with your desired partitions, make file systems and mount them.
> > > >>
> > > >> Then, using tar, just copy the old partitions to the new ones.
> > > >>
> > > >> The only problem you may face is how to copy the "/" partition w/o
> > > >> getting all the systems you have mounted (but I beleive you can get tar
> > > >> to behave properly somehow).  Worst case is that you umount everything
> > > >> but the target and copy each directory in / seperatly...
> > > >>
> > > >> Once you get things copied, you will have to adjust (on the "new" 
> > > >> drive)
> > > >> a few things so your new mount points are correctly set up for the new
> > > >> /dev/hdb? one you fdisk'ed and copied. (This is in /etc/fstab on your
> > > >> new "/" partition on your new drive..)  Also edit your /etc/lilo.conf
> > > >> file on the new partition to point to the correct "/" partition
> > > >> (boot=/dev/hda ==> boot=/dev/hdb).
> > > >>
> > > >> Unless I missed something, you should have a fully functional system on
> > > >> your new drive now, except for getting LILO to boot it for you.
> > > >>
> > > >> Before you continue any further... Make sure you have a way to boot 
> > > >> from
> > > >> a floppy or CD, just incase you make a mistake with the new lilo
> > > >> config.  (And test the recovery disks to be sure they work!).
> > > >>
> > > >> Then modify your old lilo.conf (saving the old one, just in case) so it
> > > >> points to the new drive as "/" and pointing to the kernel image on the
> > > >> new drive (you do have the new "/" mounted right?).  Run lilo and 
> > > >> reboot
> > > >> (assuming no errors).
> > > >>
> > > >> Once the system comes up again, verify that you are running on the new
> > > >> drive, and that all your partitions are mounted correctly, then run 
> > > >> lilo
> > > >> again once you are sure things are OK to remove the old system from the
> > > >> map.
> > > >>
> > > >> You have just cloned your system onto the new drive...  Once you are
> > > >> VERY sure you don't need the backup any more, feel free to run fdisk
> > > >> again and remove all the linux from your old hard drive...
> > > >>
> > > >> -= bob =-
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