Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> I just bought a 10 gig drive (the smallest available) to replace a failing
> drive. The drive that is failing is of course the drive I boot from and that
> has /, /root, /usr, /etc, /opt, /tmp, /var, /usr/local, and /usr/src all as
> separate file systems. Basically it's where all my system software lives.
> User data is on different spindles or different partitions on that drive. So
> now I have an opportunity to reorganize my system software partitions.
>
> So I suggest that we discuss
> 1) which directories should be separate file systems
> 2) how big should they be
> 3) other stuff related to disk organization
Everyone has an opinion. It's like asking the best way to organize your
closet and drawers. I do it differently depending on the application of
the system. As distros are pretty stable now, for most desktop systems,
I'd probably keep a 256 MB or larger / (with /tmp, /root, /etc & /var in
it), a separate /usr of 2 GB or more (with /usr/src in it) (and a
symlink from /opt to /usr/opt - which I doubt is FSSTND) and a
/usr/local of whatever size you need.
I can't see any significant benefit, but some disadvantages, to having
/etc, /tmp & /root separate from /. I like to keep /var separate if
there's a lot of activity there - logs, email, etc. - again, for desktop
use, I keep it in /.
I would keep a redundant / which lilo can boot from. It's saved me a few
times. At least it gives a checkpoint to diff against to see what's
changed since / last worked. ;-)
Enough of my opinions, let's hear others...
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Dan Jenkins, Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH --- 603-627-0443
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