Spyros Ioakim schrieb:
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> I reboot the machine and install RH 8.0 using the xfs boot cd.I want your
> comments on the size of the partitions here.
> Right now I had everything under / cause I wanted a dynamic use of /home and
> /samba.
> 130GB to share between the two and redhat's files is much better for me than
> having:
> /home 50 GB
> /samba 50 GB
> / 30 GB
> Since the filesystem is journalized I don't have problems with fsck in case
> of power failure (very rare since the system is on a UPS)
> Even if I need to run fsck it takes about 15 minutes which is a good time
> (for me) so I don't see why i would break it down...
>
> So I'm thinking of having /boot 40MB ext3 and / 130 GB xfs.
> The bootloader will go to the MBR so there shouldn't be any problems booting
> (so I read....)
Hi,
Another way was to put samba under /home as /home/samba. That way you
could make / a smaller partition and have the 130GB mounted on /home.
You could then create /boot and / as ext3 and only /home as XFS. If you
ever need to upgrade you distribution and there is no XFS installer
available, you could just use the RedHat disks to upgrade. After
upgrade, you install/recompile a XFS kernel and work goes on. I have
never installed like that but will maybe do so in future until RedHat
includes XFS.
Simon
>
> After the system boots up with xfs I untar everything to /home and /samba.
> I also take the necessary files from /etc (I don't restore this don't worry)
> for the samba configuration, smbpasswd, passwd, shadow and whatever else I
> might need.
>
> Any comments/ideas would be appreciated...
> First of all will I get NT style permissions with samba or I'm just going to
> get a system with XFS and no gain :-?
> Is there anything special required for samba to use those acls?
>
> Thanks for reading the whole lot and waiting for comments :-)
>
> Spyros
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