Nadav Har'El wrote:
So now I alway partition my disks with one huge partition (in addition toI also separate /home. Reason being, this way I can reinstall the OS and not lose any important data. When asked, I say "sure, format the partition, start over".
small /boot and swap partitions, of course). I recently created a 80 GB
partition, and it seems to be working well.
Also, for practical reasons, I also have a separate /home/sun/vmware partition today. Truth be told, I no longer remember what these reasons were. What I'm saying is, start with one / and one /home. Work from there.
On servers, things are different. I recommend the following:
/tmp, so you can mount it with nodev,nosuid,noexec
/home, so you can mount it with with nodev,nosuid
/var, so when/if it fills up, the system doesn't crash
/boot, only if you work with LILO and the main system is reiserfs. This way you can mount it "notails", or have it a different file system (LILO won't work with kernels on reiserfs fs and tails enabled).
/var/spool/mail (or whatever) - if you are working with Maildirs and IMAP, and you don't like reiserfs. It is much more efficient for large number of small files, in both speed and storage overhead.
etc. etc. You get the picture.
Shachar
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