Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: > Hi > > I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I > need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big > /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var . > > Is there anything that should stop me from doing that? Any performance > issues?
fragmentation. VAR by definition is very active, lots of small additions to multiple files (logs) and lots of creations and deletes (var/cache and var/spool). if you use LVM/EVMS you can start with two medium-sized partitions on logical volumes and then grow either one or the other with LV extensions, depending on which one of the two needs it more. ext2, 3 and reiser are all growable and shrinkable, reiser can even do it on the fly on a mounted partition if I remember. -- The missing link Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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