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On Friday 25 Nov 2011 20:08:01 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:12:42PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote |
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> > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room |
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> > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D |
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> > |
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> > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty |
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> > complex. |
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> > So, I want to start from something simple. |
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> > Aaaanyways, after reviewing my production boxes, I decided to |
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> > implement the following strategy: |
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> > / == 800 MiB |
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> > /boot == 20 MiB |
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> > /usr == 1800 MiB |
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> > /usr/portage == 2000 MiB |
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> > /var == 4000 MiB |
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> > /var/lib/postgresql == 1000 MiB |
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> > |
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> > Comments, suggestions, are welcome :) |
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> I have my own weird approach that's even weirder than my mdev setup<G>. |
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> I start with... |
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> * 250 megabytes for / as ext2fs (No that is not a typo) |
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> * 4 gigs for swap |
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> * the rest of the drive is /home as one huge reiserfs partition |
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> And I do *NOT* use LVM. "fdisk -l" shows... |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> /dev/sda1 2048 976773167 488385560 5 Extended |
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> /dev/sda5 4096 516095 256000 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda6 518144 8906751 4194304 83 Linux |
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> /dev/sda7 8908800 976773167 483932184 83 Linux |
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> "df" shows |
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> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on |
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> rootfs 247919 29315 205804 13% / |
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> /dev/root 247919 29315 205804 13% / |
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> devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev |
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> rc-svcdir 1024 44 980 5% /lib/rc/init.d |
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> mdev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev |
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> shm 1551308 0 1551308 0% /dev/shm |
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> /dev/sda7 483917384 251951296 231966088 53% /home |
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> The secret is that I bindmount /opt, /var, /usr, and /tmp onto the |
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> large reiserfs partition. |
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> ### /dev/sda5 / ext2 noatime,nodiratime,async |
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> 0 1 /dev/sda7 /home reiserfs |
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> noatime,nodiratime,async,notail 0 1 /home/bindmounts/opt /opt auto |
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> bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/var /var |
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> auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/usr /usr |
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> auto bind 0 0 /home/bindmounts/tmp |
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> /tmp auto bind 0 0 /dev/sda6 |
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> none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom |
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> /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 |
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> /mnt/cdrom1 auto noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/sdb1 |
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> /mnt/extb auto noauto,user,noatime,async 0 0 /dev/sdc1 |
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> /mnt/extc auto noauto,user,noatime,async 0 0 |
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> # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for |
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> # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). |
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> # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will |
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> # use almost no memory if not populated with files) |
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> shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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########################################################################### |
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> ### |
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I recall your interesting mounting approach, but never really understood the |
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benefit of it. Would you please explain why you use bindmount? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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