[Gllug] Grub on lvm

Hari Sekhon hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 9 11:22:35 UTC 2009


Nix wrote:
> On 6 Jan 2009, James Hawtin uttered the following:
>   
>> Out of interest Was your /var, /usr, /tmp or /home part of your /
>> filesystem? I aways give them seperate partitions.
>>     
>
> Likewise, only... why would you give /tmp a partition at all? tmpfs has
> been de rigeur for such things forever, and is significantly faster as
> well as saving disk space. (/var/tmp is different: that is supposed to
> persist across reboots, unlike /tmp.)
>   
But then you're trading /tmp disk for ram, not the best thing to do in 
all cases...

-h

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