On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Eric J. Pinnell wrote:
> Once was a in the unix world time when disk drives were really small
> (100MB) and really expensive. So we had to partition. You couldn't get
> all the stuff on one disk.
Aye.
Also, there were several rules that went along with that.
/bin and /sbin were only supposed to have programs in them
that were required at boot time. That's why it was /bin/sh
but /usr/bin/csh - csh was for users, but you needed /bin/sh
to log in in case something was wrong (which is also why you
should never set root's shell to anything that isn't available
at boot time).
Solaris now symlinks /usr/bin to /bin for legacy's sake.
> Now... with cheap HD's and fast access times there is no need to split
> it up...
While I used to create separate partitions for each of the
major mount points (/, /var, /usr, /home, /usr/local), I
no longer do this. I am now of the school of thought that
I just need to create a single / partition with everything
(I have two machines at home, each with 1 gig swap partitions
and 39 gig / partitions). The reason I do this is because
I hate to run out of space on one disk while having loads
and loads of it on another (which I've run into before, many
times. Nothing sucks more than having to follow a symlink
trail to see where the various parts of Oracle *REALLY* are
installed).
AFAIK, Sun is suggesting that you just go ahead and put
everything on /. Note that I haven't professionally administered
a Sun box in any serious way since the 1990's, and my Sun
Certification expired in with 2.6. So YMMV.
> ...although always keep you home dir on a seperate partition so when you
> upgrade you don't over write your stuff.
Dude. Backups.
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