Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Configured Workstations


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Timestamp:
12/14/05 12:18:36 (21 years ago)
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Daniel Kahn gillmor
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  • Configured Workstations

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    1111A prototypical configured workstation will be set up and given over to try to install the [wiki:"Required Astronomical Software"].  We're calling this the [wiki:Proto-CW]
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     13== Partitioning Scheme ==
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     15We'll use [wiki:LVM].  here's the proposed partitioning scheme:
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     17Base disk is broken into two partitions:
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     19 * `/dev/sda1` is a small (200MB) partition for `/boot`
     20 * `/dev/sda2` is everything else, and will be a physical volume (the only physical volume in the primary volume group for the machine)
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     22The primary volume group will have these logical volumes:
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     24 * `root` is a ~1GB volume mounted at `/`
     25 * `usr` is a ~4GB volume mounted at `/usr`
     26 * `var` is a ~4GB volume mounted at `/var`
     27 * `swap` is a ~1GB volume used for swap space
     28 * the rest will be mounted as a scratch partition somewhere reasonable (like `/usr/local/scratch`)
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     30== temporary space ==
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     32i'm inclined to mount `/tmp` as a RAM-backed filesystem.  Since all RAM is actually backed by swap, this is reasonable, and it means that `/tmp` will be nicely auto-flushed on a reboot.  An example line in `/etc/fstab` for such a method would look like this:
     33{{{
     34tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=300m,mode=1777,nosuid,nodev 0   0
     35}}}