[linux-lvm] Mandrake 8.1 and LVM
Sarwer Zafiruddin
sarwer.zafiruddin at rune.org
Thu Nov 29 15:53:02 UTC 2001
Expanding / is useful when you need to upgrade the system and the newer OS
needs more space to upgrade. My primary concern is things under the /var
filesystem, where things grow constantly like logs (which I like to keep
atleast 6months of rotated logs), possibly more space for
/var/spool/mqueue (for mail server that have increase of mail traffic),
and /var/spool/mail (for those hog user who refuse to clean up their INBOX
;-) ).
Sarwer
> > (b) dynamically expand the amount of space available to the root
partition.
>
> Pardon me for being a neophyte here, but what else goes on the root
> partition which takes any significant or dynamic amount of space? Isn't
> the root just a place to put all the top level directories, the contents
> of which are typically all on another partition anyway?
>
> -- Mitch
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