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Re: Installing




On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 
> > all that is true if you are planning a server. /usr can be part of the
> > root but /usr/local is a very good candidate for a seperate partition,
> > same for all of /var and /home, /home/ftp if you are opening it for public
> > access. the redmond approach is just fine for a workstation though.
> 
> Not really. Can anyone on the list, whose disk has filled up, and had to
> whack his head to a wall for a few days/weeks before he untangled the
> links and directories required to move stuff to a new partition on a newly
> added disk, speak up ? ;)

log deletion is taken care of pretty well with redhat's config of
logrotate, and moving files around was always simple to me with either "cp
-a" or tar | tar. I had done it many times when moving abusive users'
homedirs around (I don't like putting quotas on developpers, and disks are
cheap)

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