[KLUG Members] Re: Laptop reiser corruption and fixing it

[Bryan J. Smith]

"Michael W. Holdeman" wrote:
> Hmm.... I've never seperated /tmp or /var.

You don't have to.  Just make your / a little bigger to accomodate
them on a workstation.

/tmp and /var are the most fragmenting of filesystems.  Lots of
small temporary and/or random writes.  In addition to the
fragmentation issues, I like to separate them for 2 reasons:

1) On Ext2/3, they can quickly eat up all the pre-allocated inodes
before they use up all the blocks, so I usually format them with 1
node per 2 blocks (instead of the default of 4 or 8).  I also don't
want their "filling up" to affect my / or other parts of the system.

2) With lots of writes, its much more of a recovery issue when / is
being hit with /tmp and /var directory writes.  If I separate out
/tmp and /var, / is a lot more static.  So there is greatly reduced
risk of inconsistency on an improper shutdown.

> Guess there is no reason why I couldn't. I usually seperate
> /usr and /home, and any non/home NFS exports. (eg.. /ptfd)

What's /ptfd for?

Here's my personal partitioning guide (the one I follow):
http://www.matrixlist.com/pipermail/leaplist/2001-November/015760.html

> ps (SGI??) I am running SuSE 7.2P, Caldera eD2.4 (kernel
> 2.4.9), and Caldera server 3.1.1.

I'd only consider XFS if you were running RedHat.

Does Caldera support Ext3 in its installers now (since it is in the
stock kernel 2.4.15+)?

-- Bryan

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