  | | | How to make file system | How to make file system 2006-05-13 - By Han Tin
Back 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. Thanks.
-- --Original Message-- -- From: redhat-install-list-bounces@(protected) [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces@(protected)] On Behalf Of karlp@(protected) Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 9:52 PM To: redhat-install-list@(protected) Subject: Re: How to make file system
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.
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