[CoLoCo] New Deputy Team Lead

[David Overcash]

Congrats Nick!

-David

On Dec 18, 2007 12:20 PM, Mitch Mahan <mitch at kci.net> wrote:

> Please everyone; join me in congratulating Nick Verbeck on his new
> position
> in the Ubuntu Colorado Local Community as:
>
> + Deputy Team Lead
>
> He will be helping me in managing and organizing events/the LoCo for
> continuous growth and community involvement in the year(s) to come.
>
> So when you see him make sure you give him a 'grats or a nice pat on the
> back.
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -Mitch
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Brandan E.
> Lloyd
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:18 AM
> To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team
> Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] partitioning (after the fact...)
>
> Ryan,
>
> When you do the install you have to put a check in the checkbox next
> to the partition you want to format.  By default there are none
> checked.  I'm pretty sure you have to check that you want to format
> the root partition.
>
> Just dont' check the checkbox next to your home partition and you
> should be good to go.  I have done this on two boxes in the past month
> and it worked great.
>
> Brandan
>
> On 12/14/07, Ryan Taylor <rztaylor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks again for the input.  I'll probably end up tackling the install
> this
> > weekend.  One last follow up question...:
> >
> > I'll be creating the new /home partition in Edgy following the steps
> here.
> > One thing that is not mentioned is what happens during the install
> process
> > for future Ubuntus (gutsy in this case)?
> > When I tell it to use the existing /home partition as "/home" will it
> > reformat the partition?  ---I realize this probably doesn't happen since
> > that would defeat the purpose
> > of having a separate /home partition in the first place...
> >
> > Or does the the installer just ignore the files and just assign the
> > appropriate permissions, links, etc to the existing files?  I just have
> some
> > important stuff in there I wouldn't want to lose.
> > Forgive me for being over-cautious...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ryan
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2007 7:55 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 18:04 -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:18:28PM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
> > > > > I have begun the conversation in the developers to see if we can
> try
> > and
> > > > > fix this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Its more than holy war, its about stability and disaster recovery.
> > The
> > > > > one partition fits all approach is very bad in these aspects.
>  That
> is
> > > > > why I have begun the conversation in the developers to try and get
> it
> > > > > fixed for Hardy.
> > > > >
> > > > > I know my normal partitioning scheme will likely get labeled too
> > extreme
> > > > > in the end, if I can move the default used in installation to a
> more
> > > > > robust system, I will feel completely victorious.
> > > >
> > > > Um - "victorious"?  Comparisons to holy war?  I would ask who is the
> > > > enemy?
> > >
> > > The original comment was about how each person has their ideal
> > > partitioning layout.  And the arguments can get to resemble a real
> holy
> > > war similar in stupidity as to which is the best distro.  Personally,
> I
> > > prefer a four to five partition layout, and install all my machines
> (and
> > > will be training my guys next week that will be building all of
> Fighting
> > > Penguin's machines) to use this partitioning method.
> > >
> > > / = 20GB
> > > /boot = 512MB
> > > /home = <remainder>
> > > /var/log = 5GB
> > >
> > > Servers get /home partition replaced with a /srv partition and any
> > > machine with more than 2GB of ram gets /tmp mounted tmpfs.
> > >
> > > For software and web developer machines, a /srv partition is created
> > > with 10GB in addition to the /home directory.
> > >
> > > If a machine is marked as highly critical, /etc is on its own
> partition,
> > > then mirrors are set up for /boot, /etc, /home, and /srv.  This will
> > > allow for a complete rebuild, and software reset in minutes not hours.
> > >
> > > I don't anticipate that Ubuntu would ever need or even want anything
> > > that elaborate.  Instead, I am hoping to get /boot, and /home isolated
> > > to make Ubuntu a little more robust and improve disaster recovery.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kevin Fries
> > > Senior Linux Engineer
> > > Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
> > > A Division of Japan Communications Inc.
> > >
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