begin quoting John Oliver as of Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:46:52PM -0700:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:39:27PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> > You want to leave lots of room in /var ('cuz that's where log files
> > live and grow), /opt and /usr/local ('cuz that's where the stuff
> > you add to the system goes), and /home ('cuz your data is actually
> > the important stuff on the machine).
> >
> > However, I haven't done this in ages. For VM instances, I go with
> > a single partition (except for Zones).
>
> A single / even including /var?
Yup.
> One consideration I had with the VM was to make a default image of maybe
> 4GB, and to be able to copy it, increase the size of the disk, and
> resize or create partitions to be able to use it. If I just create one
> big / then it would be pretty tough to just resize my filesystem... I'd
> probably have to do a lot of dd'ing between partitions or virtual disks,
> in which case I might as well just create a new VM and install.
Yup.
But then, I've not gone in for VMs the way Tracy has -- I find the
additional mental complexity to be slightly annoying.
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