Re: Installing on a small root partition

Have you tried 20-30 per day? Everyday? That is the kind f stuff we have to deal with here. Sometimes it is just fluctuation in the voltage and that is enough to reboot the system.

Are you doing a standard install? Or do you have anything different in terms of partitions or file systems?

Thanx,
Anil Gupte


----- Original Message ----- From: "charles norwood" <chasnorw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:47 AM
Subject: Re: Installing on a small root partition


On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:53 +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
On Monday 03 July 2006 07:10, Anil Gupte wrote:
> BlankNeed help and advice.
>
> I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have done
> two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about what was
> going on - I mostly accepted the defaults.
>
> This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power losses.
> So, my plan is to have a small root partition (say about 100MB), and make
> it a read-only partition. This way, there will be no corruption on
> constant reboots. The apps, logs etc will be on a separate partition. The
> read-only partition idea was a suggestion from a Linux guru, as a solution
> for inodes etc being corrupted and the system not booting properly.
>
> I tried the Debian installer, but it fails, and I am pretty sure that is
> because the root partition is small. Is there any way to tell the
> installer where to put which files? I am installing from a DVD containing
> Sarge.
>
> Any suggestions will be welcome. Also, any advice on the read only root
> partition will be helpful.
>
> Thanx,
> Anil Gupte

I have a large number of small systems running a stripped down version of
Debian, and they are all build using ext3. That way unless there is a
really serious corruption they journal is replayed when the system reboots
and it comes up cleanly. Many of these systems are in remote locations
and I can count on one hand the number of times over a period of 2 and a half
years when they have not come up automatically.

David


I'm running a full Sarge installation that has recovered cleanly from
about six power losses.


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