-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, this is another one of my questions that has no right answer. But I'm pondering it today and I thought I'd toss it out to the group. I'm install SuSE 8.2 to run in a server configuration. All previous training tells me you don't make one big root partition - it's just bad karma. Split things up so that filling one partition (say, /var, where database content is usually put) won't bring down your system. Distro makers either don't know this or don't like it, because their auto-partitioning schemes always make one big "/" partition.
Ok, back to SuSE - I've always broken /var and /usr off into their own partitions, and sometimes /home if it's warranted. But SuSE throws in /srv and /opt. This is getting a bit silly. I don't want 7 partitions (including swap) - the machine only has 8 GB of hard drive space. Nor do I have any clue how big /opt might get, and how big /srv will get compared to /var. I thought I'd cheat and just move /srv to /var then symlink to it, but Apache really doesn't like that (and I'm betting whatever FTP server I put on there won't like it either - they tend to generally be very anti-symlink). So, I'll solve this situation my own, I'm sure, but I thought I'd put it out there - how are people partitioning their servers, SuSE or other distro? Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Zh51SiY+RXI7JS4RApLWAJ9E85RO4lLyvwx5q9SeoIh6y2yfdQCgoPXX I6n/PCyzrgJdXkYh9IasWTM= =Yrdv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
