bin, sbin, etc as seperate LVM volumes 672

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:54, Rick DeBay stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

Aninitrdorinitramfsis typically used in the default boot procedure of a pre-packaged distribution such as Mandriva, SuSE, RedHat or Fedora Core.

It is however not necessary to use either of those compressed RAM-disk images if your kernel has all the drivers for your hardware and filesystems compiled in-line. My system here for instance boots avanilla2.6.8.1 kernel without aninitrd.

The document below should give you a better and more detailed insight at what really goes on during the boot process. It's not specific to a 2.6 kernel, I think. In fact, it may still refer to an older kernel - it's been a while since I've read it... ;-)

Then please see my reply toDances-withCrows...;-)

The data you store should normally not reside in the root directory or on the root filesystem. It should go into *-srv* or under one of the *-var* subtrees.

Sensitive data should of course also always be backed up, and if you're really paranoid, I would suggest using at least a RAID 1 configuration, preferably with three disks - i.e. two active, one hot-spare.

In addition, I would recommend using quality hardware, such as server or workstation hardware instead of the commodity stuff, and disk-wise, this would include SCSI disks. Those are generally more stable and tolerant than IDE or USB disks, be it SATA or PATA.

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)