-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 DJA wrote: > I am looking for recommendations on partitions. That is, for a home > desktop system what partition schemes (i.e. /, /boot, /home, etc.) are > recommended and why? I am not too concerned with sizes as my current > usage is a pretty good guide here.
Use LVM. Then you won't ever have to really answer this problem. > Is there any good reason to give /usr its own partition? I hear talk > about making it RO but I don't know how practical that is on a Redhat > GUI system. I like to make it its own partition just so I don't have to make / so big. > What is the benefit vs. penalty of using LVM on a home system, > especially for the case where the system has only one drive? If so, what > partitions should the LVM FS include or exclude and why? Penalty: You have to learn how to use LVM. Not that hard for an experienced Linux guy like yourself. A logical volume works just like a partition. If you aren't careful with how you use LVM you can lose your data. I've written quite a bit about LVM a few times before so I will summarize below. Benefit: LVM lets you dynamically change the size of your filesystems so you do not have to reinstall your whole system just to change your partitioning scheme. You can usually even do it on the fly while all of your apps are still running. At install time just take a wild guess at how big /home should be and if your guess turns out too small you can always expand it if you have some unallocated space. If you don't have any unallocated space maybe you can make some by shrinking another under-utilized filesystem. Makes disk space management a whole lot easier. - -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCfIMb9PIYKZYVAq0RApCcAJ963ccKEIggzqTki7k5hFBEgTwGHwCeIiOn KjX4BmgFOqPsYtRo+084mts= =GGLg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
