Re: [Sheflug] Re: Partitioning

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Oooo...I stand corrected and feeling very 'umble!

I think the thing which seemed to be a sticking point from my limited
experience was the fact that, when you install a program from an .rpm (may
be different with other methods but the ones I have compiled from source
semmed the same) virtually everything gets put in /usr. Consequently, unlike
windoze where apart from the sprinkling of .dlls into the windows directory
on C\:, it doesn't matter a damn where the rest of the program lives, it
appears that in linux the size of your main /usr partition governs the
available program space on the machine. The impression I also get is that it
is not easy to spread this /usr partition across more than one physical
drive without a lot of clever fiddling in the kernel and things. When I set
the machine up initially with two disk drives I did put the /usr/local on a
different drive to the /usr partition but it just seemed like a waste of
space as virtually nothing went in there. Perhaps I just haven't got into
the mindset of keeping a tidy computer yet, I know I'm still confused as to
what you should do with all the different partitions -like what is the
difference between /usr/local and /home or between / and /root.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Andrews" <craig [at] fishbot.org.uk>
To: "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: 16 November 2000 11:45
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Re: Partitioning


> Yer what?
>
> When I started with Linux, it was 1Gb partition on a 3.2Gb drive. Since
> then, it expanded to:
>
> all the 3.2Gb Drive
> an 8.4Gb drive,
> split between a 15Gb and 8.4Gb drive
>
> All this without a single reinstall! Also, I regularly change

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