Re: [Sheflug] Some basic info please...

[Pieter Meiring <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tuesday 09 Oct 2001 8:32 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry I missed the last meeting - busy, busy, busy!
>
> I've just downloaded the 3 Mandrake 8.1 iso images (thank goodness for a
> fast, Shef. Uni. account!) and burned some CDs. Before I do a complete
> reinstall of my system, I wonder if someone could explain some fairly
> fundamental stuff for me?
>

fwiw, I use the following partitioning info:
/boot	-10M	ext2
/	256M	ext2
/tmp	640M	ext2
swap	256M (same as RAM size)
/var	2G	reiserfs
/usr	3G	reiserfs
/home	(The Rest = ~30G) reiserfs

Of these, only /home and /var realy change and, when doing a reinstall, only 
/var and /home are preserved.
/var contains all logs, database files (postgres), etc
/home contains user home directories.

I also tend to put shared user programs, Staroffice, java 1.3.1, Applix , 
etc. into /home/apps with links into /usr/local/bin on each client machine 
for executables. The reason being that I can then share the /home directory 
with multiple computers as a single nfs shared directory rather than sharing 
it as well as /usr/local or installing the software on every client machine.

Pieter
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