Re: Best Practices Survey: Disk Partitioning

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd@daimi.au.dk)
Date: 09/23/02 

From: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:31:01 +0200

Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
>
> thus spake Kasper Dupont:
> ...
> > Are we talking about servers or networked workstations?
> > The workstation should not be backed up at all, because
> > you should already have a procedure for installing it.
>
> :) Workstations

In a large network it should not be necesarry to backup the
workstations. You should be able to install a new workstation
from scratch by the means of a simple script and/or cloning
an existing workstation.

> -- our servers are Suns. They don't have /root,

You are right, Solaris seems to make / the home of root.

> their /dev is devfs,

Nice, I hope that will soon become the default in most Linux
distributions.

> and their / is backed up, too.

Sounds like a good idea to me. 

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