Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:06, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Izar Ilun wrote: >> > I say that, It'll be just: >> > - /boot >> > - swap >> > - /home >> > - / (all the rest) >> >> That's not advisable. I'd strongly suggest to create >> filesystems for /boot, swap, /home, /opt, /usr, /var >> and / (of course). This way you're more flexible >> and also a bit safer (not such a high risk of running >> out of space on /). > > and he wastes a lot of space,
No, he doesn't. Where does he waste space? Also, to use your argument - we're no longer in the age where 10gb harddrives are high end. > makes boot a lot longer Not really. > and increases head > movement. > > One big / (like 40 or 80GB) will be enough Yes, and it's obviously the worst solution. How do you mount /tmp noexec? How do you mount /usr read-only? > With that sizes, it is nearly impossible to fill / completly up. And it's impossible to have some flexibility. > To put everything on its own partition was good, when harddisks were 2gb-10gb > big. And it's still good today. > But today it is just a waste of space and time. No, it's absolutely not. Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #126: it has Intel Inside -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
