[server-admins] what's left on root?

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Thanks Jonathan and Karl,

Karl, so those lines in /etc/fstab and a reboot will switch to tmpfs? I'm not in Phoenix so I have to get this right the first time.

Jonathan, I don't like splitting up my data into various different partitions due to the fact that I have to allot a set storage space to each. I make one 'OS' partition and one 'data' partition. And symlink stuff in place. I have experiemented with bindmounting things in place, but had silly issues and symlinking seems to work best.

This let me, at any time, wipe root, reinstall any version of any distro, symlink /opt, /home, /usr/share/sword, and a couple of others in place and be back up and running quickly. Now, this works fine for my laptop, but crosswire is more complex, as we count on certain packages like: mailman, mediawiki, and exim.

Is there an advantage to having multiple 'other that root' partitions in our case?

Troy

Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:

>Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> writes:
>>> You might consider moving /tmp to minimize writes.
>
>> If the machine has plenty of RAM you could consider making /tmp a
>> separate tmpfs filesystem.
>
>[charcoal at www ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo 
>MemTotal:       33082196 kB
>MemFree:        14833080 kB
>
>That's plenty of memory to change /tmp and /var/tmp to tmpfs:
>
>tmpfs	/tmp		tmpfs	defaults	0 0
>tmpfs	/var/tmp	tmpfs	defaults	0 0
>
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