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Date:	Mon, 24 May 2004 22:57:16 PDT7
From:	"Gary Granat" <ggranat@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: New System Configuration

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Sheridan,
Thanks for the insights. You did, in fact, answer a number of my questions.

On Mon, 24 May 2004 20:25:01 PDT7, Sheridan George wrote:

>I'm not clear on what you are intending by the partitioning you described so I'll tell you how I
>have partitioned my hard drives under LVM. Maybe that will answer some of your questions.

The partitioning outlined in my previous message deliberately did not include
drive lettering. I figured I would deal with that during the LVM session. For
no particularly sound reason (probably inertia) I tend to keep my bootables
toward the beginning of whatever physical device they are on. In the case of
the SOYO system, my intent is to make each of the three physical drives
bootable, for the reasons you outlined. I follow the "Peter Skye School" in
this regard and my "maintenance" bootables are full-blown from scratch
installations; I generally omit some of the frills, but they are fully
functional and are native to the particular partition they are installed on.
One small quirk is that the third physical drive is removable, so I must clone
the structure to each cartridge that can occupy that space.

I note that you have a partition for applications and one for data. My
practice, over the years (since 1976, to be precise) has been to keep whatever
data an application needs with the application. One can argue the wisdom of
this, but it has worked well for me. Perhaps, if I had a group of applications
that shared data, I would be more inclined to create a special location for
them, but I don't, so I haven't.

Hope this clarifies my thinking.

--gary
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