On 03/27/2014 11:12 AM, Kent Borg wrote: > There doesn't seem to be a lot of controversy that a separate /boot > partition is good. > > On 03/26/2014 09:33 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: >> Regarding partition layouts, I don't bother with them any more beyond >> a small /boot partition. All other file systems are under some kind >> of volume manager that permits dynamic allocation and sizing. > > I like having a different /home partition so that I will have more > flexibility with future OS installs. > > Assumption: Upgrades are technically hard to engineer and even harder > to thoroughly test, and my starting condition before I do my upgrade > will probably not be a tested case. The more that I want an OS upgrade > to work (because I have done a lot of custom configuring I don't want > to have to redo) the less likely it will be to work correctly (because > I have made a lot of custom configuring). This is why I always > maintain a file called adminlog.txt. It is my notes, an old fashioned > journal with dated entries of what I do to the OS. If I need to > reproduce my config, I can "replay" this journal. > > So, for OS upgrades I do a fresh, complete install. Having an OS > partition means I can install there, without touching my /home > partition. If it works, I can then tweak things to use my old /home > partition. Yes, there can be upgrade problems for home directories, > too, but not blowing away all my files is a nice start. > > Another partition consideration: Disks are cheap, on some of my > machines I have dual "/" partitions for the OS, each complete and > bootable. One is a trailing copy the other and I can revert to it by a > simple reboot. When I have been running happily and some updates come > along, I copy my running version over to the other side before the > update--so I can again again revert if anything goes wrong. > > This might be overly conservative and paranoid on the part of a > dilettante (and I don't configure things this way always), but I have > seen Linux computers where the Professional sysadmins don't do > upgrades at all because they don't want to break things that are > working. I suggest they have too much faith in the magical abilities > of firewalls. > Also, if you multi-boot Linuxes you can easily get the installer to point to your shared /home. I've done this with both SuSE and Red Hat based distros.
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