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  • From: Duane Macolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>
  • To: George Mochrie <geo AT drasil.no-ip.org>
  • Cc: SM-Discuss <SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Multiple SGML on one pc
  • Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:11:56 +1300

I did think of having a /var/spool/sorcery link to /home directory but I couldn't think of a way to prune the source files (gaze prune). Do you have a way to do this? I guess I could write a script to do this.

You say you have an unstable prototype of the stable partition, do you upgrade the the stable partition by replicating what you did int he unstable partition or do you do something like rsync or "cp -rp *"?

Thanks for the comments, Duane.

George Mochrie wrote:

hi

I have something similar on my PC, also using an 80GB HDD. I find that having a seperate /boot as dufflebunk suggested is virtually essential. I also find that 10GB is vastly excessive for root partitions as long as you don't install big binary based packages (I have alpha centauri and homm3 for linux :) and you keep /var/spool/sorcery on a different partition. My setup is as follows:

hda1 (15MB): /boot. yes, that _is_ MB, I've not run out of space on it yet. Perhaps it you compile everything into the kernal more space will be needed.
hda2 (1GB): swap. Personally I prefer swap partitions to files, but I guess that's a personal preference.
hda5 (8GB): stable linux, currently slackware but hopefully smgl when 1.0 comes out
hda6 (4GB): unstable linux, a prototype of the stable partition
hda7 (4GB): testing linux, for playing with & breaking
hda8 (all the rest, >60GB): /home. I guess this could be split to allow a seperate backup partition.

My /var/spool/sorcery is a symlink to a directory in /home. This gives 2 advantages: tarballs are shared across the installations on the PC (thus saving on bandwidth and disk space) and I have my /home shared over NFS so the same tarballs can be used on other machines on the network. Perhaps if you have other big directories (/var/log ?) the same could be done with them.

The new virtual machine stuff in the upcoming 2.6 kernel should be interesting for doing stuff like this, but I don't know much about that.

Hope this helps

George

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 8:13 pm, Duane Macolm wrote:


Hi,

This is a bit off the topic of bugs and problems but it gives us an
oppotunity to think kind of sideways a little.

I use my pc for work and to play around with linux. Unfortunately, when
playing around with linux I sometimes screw my pc over and can't work.
So I have been thinking alot about how to setup my computer so I work
and play without jeopardizing each other.

This is what I have come up with (HD = 80GB):

Primary partition 1 (10GB): work partition using the stable tree of SGML
Primary partition 2 (20GB): home partiton
Primary partition 3 (30GB): backup partition
Primary partition 4 (10GB): play partition 1 using stable tree of SGML
Extended partition 5 (10GB): play partition 2 using devel tree of SGML

I will use partition 5 to play with linux and test new spells.
I will use partition 4 as my stable play partition and will run "sorcery
system-update" on to ensure there are no problems before updating
partition 1. I had a problem two days ago where I couldn't work
yesterday because I did a "sorcery system-update" and pango wouldn't
play nice. This would provide a way around this problem. I could also
use this partition to test fresh installs if need be.
I will rsync partition 1 and partition 2 to the backup partition.

I was wanting advice on improvements and other peoples experience. This
issue must have been thought about in the past and there is probably a
"best" way to do this.

Cheers, Duane.



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