How to make file system

karlp at ourldsfamily.com karlp at ourldsfamily.com
Sat May 13 16:24:01 UTC 2006


On Sat, May 13, 2006 8:32 am, Han Tin said:
>  I need to make different Filesystem.
> I think I have to reinstall. I do not want all in /
> I want /home  as a separate Filesystem as well as to /var /usr
> Can't we split from /   to different Filesystem. I thought ext3 can do.

Yes, a re-install would be easiest, especially if you haven't done any
customization yet. During the install, you are given the option to accept the
default layout or customize. Choose to customize and you'll be able to create
the filesystems you wish.

Karl

> Thanks.
>
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> On Fri, May 12, 2006 7:43 pm, Han Tin said:
>> To all,
>> I am very new to RHL.  I just install RHL ES server.
>> I would like to know how to use mkfs.
>>
>> df -k
>> Filesystem       1K-blocks           used Available  Use%     mounted
> on
>> /dev/mapper/volGroup00-LogVol00
>>                        420620928         1841808  397412748       1%
> /
>> /dev/sda               101086               12302     83565
> 13%
>> /boot
>> none                   2073628                     0   2073628
> 0%
>> /dev/shm
>>
>> This is what I got.
>>
>> How will I create more filesystem        /dev/sda2     /data1
> etc..etc...
>
> It appears your space is used already and is mounted under / (root). You
> could just create a directory for data1 (mkdir /data1) and begin using
> it.
>
> On many *nixes, it's been prevalent to create most filesystems in such a
> way that they each appear in the output of a df command (try df -h, df
> -m and others and see if you like the output better; df -k is the
> default so just typing df will give the same output). Part of the
> reason, IIRC, for this was that there was a limited number of inodes
> available to each filesystem and if it was very big, the kernel wouldn't
> be able to accomodate the potential growth.
>
> As disks have become larger and faster, OS disk drivers and kernels have
> evolved to better support them and it becomes unnecessary to create the
> various filesystems.
>
> Another reason for creating various filesystems was the belief that
> performing backups was easier. I do my backups by doing a cp to a
> completely different spindle mounted in a different machine. That way, I
> can have incremental FULL backups going back 30 days.
>
> Actually, I started doing this way back on Redhat 5.2 after cutting my
> teeth on Slackware installed with 1.44MB floppies.
>
> Sorry to ramble around the topic. Count on a couple others to give
> better explanations.
>
>
>>
>> Please help.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
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