On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 06:34:32 +0530, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Most of the documentation I read recommendseparate partitions of each
`meta' directorylike /usr, /var etc.
If you have enough disk space, it makes sense
to create separate partitions for /usr and /var.
In case you have 2 disks, you can create /usr
partition on 1 disk and /var, /tmp, /home on the
other. In theory this might improve performance
by allowing read/writes to go in parallel.
Also, by having a separate partition for /usr,
you can leave it mounted in read-only mode (on
most clean distributions), thus improving
performance and security even further. Of course,
you could remount as read-write when you wish to
install/upgrade/remove software packages.
Creating a separate partition for /home would
help a lot if you are using multiple
distributions and want to share your home
directory. You can also re-install/upgrade
or even migrate to another distribution
without losing your mails/profiles/programs/etc..
In summary, by having separate partitions for
most top-level directories, you have the choice
to use special mount options and extended
attributes based on the properties of these
directories in order to gain more performance
and stability.
I wanted to know whether other desktop usersalso go for the single
partition mounted root,or used something else (LVM?).
Having a single partition (of say, > 20 GB) can
be a pain, if there was an abnormal shutdown/
reboot - fsck might take way too long. By having
/boot and /usr mounted as read-only by default,
you could save time and integrity of data
in case of a power mishap.
Also, on systems with 512MB RAM, 2*RAM is 1 GB.Is that much of swap
necessary?
I doubt so. Unless of course, you intend to run
Java applications or setup Oracle server on your
desktop.
--
Chandrashekar Babu.
http://www.chandrashekar.info/
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