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From: Andrei Popescu on 30 Jun 2010 05:10 On Mi, 30 iun 10, 10:29:20, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of > putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two > partitions, for example. For this there would have to be two /var in the tree ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
From: Merciadri Luca on 30 Jun 2010 05:20 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 30 iun 10, 10:29:20, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of >> putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two >> partitions, for example. >> > > For this there would have to be two /var in the tree ;) > Yes, but * your idea of the tree is a good idea (at least to me); * in the installation procedure, one can choose to install the same stuff at different places. Or the effect of choosing such a thing is undocumented, and it should not be interesting to do. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Love is like war, Easy to start, Hard to end, Impossible to forget.
From: Alan Chandler on 30 Jun 2010 07:50 On 30/06/10 09:29, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of > putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two > partitions, for example. > You are still talking backwards You put the partition (/dev/sdXY) on /var not the other way round. You DON'T put /var on /dev/sdXY If you imagine there is a conceptual drawing of the tree starting at / and including all the major mount points - with the non standard mount points being creatable manually, and somewhere below a list of unallocated partitions. Then you could drag any partition (from the unallocated list or from another mount point) and drop it on mount point you wanted. If that mount point already had a partition at that point it would warn you, and if you said continue would move the old partition back into the unallocated list. If you said don't continue it would leave the old one where it was and the new one would return from whence it came. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C2B2DD7.2070009(a)chandlerfamily.org.uk
From: Merciadri Luca on 30 Jun 2010 12:50 Alan Chandler wrote: > On 30/06/10 09:29, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of >> putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two >> partitions, for example. >> > > > You are still talking backwards > > You put the partition (/dev/sdXY) on /var not the other way round. > You DON'T put /var on /dev/sdXY / > > If you imagine there is a conceptual drawing of the tree starting at / > and including all the major mount points - with the non standard mount > points being creatable manually, and somewhere below a list of > unallocated partitions. > > Then you could drag any partition (from the unallocated list or from > another mount point) and drop it on mount point you wanted. If that > mount point already had a partition at that point it would warn you, > and if you said continue would move the old partition back into the > unallocated list. If you said don't continue it would leave the old > one where it was and the new one would return from whence it came. That's the way it should be done. But it isn't. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. (Jacques Bossuet)
From: Daniel Barclay on 30 Jun 2010 15:00
Alan Chandler wrote: > On 30/06/10 09:29, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of >> putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two >> partitions, for example. >> > > > You are still talking backwards > > You put the partition (/dev/sdXY) on /var not the other way round. You > DON'T put /var on /dev/sdXY Not exactly. Yes, it's the other way around when you're talking about _mounting_ the partition at the mount point. However, you can certainly talk about putting /var on a partition, to refers to putting the subtree of file and directories rooted at /var on that partition (or to causing that to happen, by assigning the (initial empty) directory /var to a partition by saying to mount that partition at /var (and then have the installer populate it)). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C2B8ED7.9040302(a)fgm.com |