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Topic: Episode 76 - Partitioning and Filesystems (Read 4537 times)
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Chess
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In this episode: contest and guest podcasts; a discussion about certain considerations to take into account when partitioning a hard drive for a Linux install, and then a talk about various Linux filesystems, including Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, Ext4, Reiser4, and ZFS; audio and email listener feedback. http://www.linuxreality.com/podcast/episode-76-partitioning-and-filesystems/ |
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Wofl
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very nice, i always wanted to know some more details about all this thanks a lot here a few of my tips: (note, still listening as of now) use flags, you can set partitions like /tmp and /var as noexec and nodev, effectivly blocking any execution of scripts there. if you want to, you can set ro on /usr, and change it temporarly for updating. a while back, i saw this guide http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/the-importance-of-linux-partitions.htmlalso, i think that some game a while back had a linux port (programmers having fun), but the company didnt want to release it (dont quote me on this) |
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« Last Edit: September 05, 2007, 05:48:44 PM by Wofl »
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Sebulba
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On the Windows installs....the OS itself can go anywhere, but the MBR and bootloader (if my MCP memory serves me right) has to be on the primary active partition for it to boot.
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« Last Edit: September 05, 2007, 06:20:21 PM by Sebulba »
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mrlinux11
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One of my favorite setups is to use RAID 5 and then use the Logical Volume manager to divide up the RAID array. This provides redundancy and expandability, you can add drives to the system and add them into a logical volume and extend it.
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Unixfan
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Great show Chess... I do have to say that as a BSD user, I was hoping you would of mentioned your experiences with Berkeley Fast File System.. With FreeBSD there is FFS2 and OpenBSD currently uses FFS.. etc.. Anyway, I like the show.. Keep it up..  |
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Claudio
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Great show Chess... I do have to say that as a BSD user, I was hoping you would of mentioned your experiences with Berkeley Fast File System.. With FreeBSD there is FFS2 and OpenBSD currently uses FFS.. etc.. Anyway, I like the show.. Keep it up.. ...Will Backman?? (Just kidding.  ) That would have been an interesting sidenote IMO. I'm assuming he just wanted to focus specifically on the ones available in Linux mainly because the show is geared to Linux, but also probably not to confuse the people that are new to Linux. I imagine that maybe (if Chess is reading this) there would be a supplemental episode on filesystems and partitioning describing in detail the ones available for the BSDs and how the partitioning differs between Linux and the BSDs. Also, I had no idea about ext4. I didn't even know that anything like that was worked on recently. Interesting.  |
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Larry Bushey
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Excellent episode, Chess... and very timely. How did you know that I was repartitioning one of my machines?  Larry. |
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CAPLinux
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Thanks for the timely podcast Chess. After listening to this podcast I went home and blew away my Windows partition and reloaded Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn on my Compaq Presario V2000 Laptop. I then set up user accounts for me and the wife and made sure she could use the wireless network and surf the web and get her email. After letting her use the system for about an hour she comments to me "This is alot faster then Windows." I said nothing and just smiled.  |
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bamend
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I enjoyed this podcast and wondered if there is a howto to take one through setting up the swap, root, and home partitions when installing your linux distro.
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lnxguit
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bamend - Just name the distro, and I bet we can help!
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bamend
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I'm using Ubuntu. I'd appreciate any help.
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torerling
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I usually just use gparted make, a 750 Mb swap partition, about 10 Gb for root 10 Gb for distro testing and then the rest for space for home, when you install ubuntu you will see the choices of what to mount where, if you have an already installed system It'll be a bit harder, but I think you may not |
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Wofl
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does it not have all those default options like:
all on one partition
separate home and root
separate home, root, var, tmp and usr
or was that under debian?
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lnxguit
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Yeah, Debian has those options. But I haven't installed Ubuntu for quite a while, and I'm not sure how Ubuntu presents the partitioning now.
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