On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Henrique Pantarotto wrote:
> I've been using Linux for almost 2 and a half years now. First I started
> with Slackware, then later went to Red Hat 4.1 and so on...
Ditto, using Linux since '94, from Slakware 1.0 to 3.0 to RH 4 and so
on... and BSDI as well. But I still consider myself a semi-novice.
> Do I gain better performance by having many partitions?
I can't see where you would gain a noticable improvement, though I may be
wrong. No one has even mentioned performance to me as a reason, EXCEPT on
a news server or similar situation, where you will be creating many many
thousands of files on the FS.
> The only reason I think for having /home in another partition is if you
> have like other HD or something. I don't think there's a point of a
> home-user with 2 gigs HD install his Linux using 5 or more partitions..
I was also taught early on to make lots of little partitions. Just
recently I decided to change to a two- or three-partition setup. If I am
worried about dumb users filling /home I'll put it in a separate
partition.
The reasons I have heard in favor of lots of filesystems on a drive:
1.) Failure recovery - if you lose or hose one partition, you haven't lost
everything. OK, but reinstalling Linux is pretty quick, and big (4GB+)
tape drives are pretty checp these days
2.) Backups - easier to tar up a partition. Not sure I buy that one.
3.) A smaller filesystem will be faster for the OS to find files on -- i
think this may have been a valid issue with a 386, but with a P200 or so
and a drive of reasonable size, I grow increasingly doubtful of the impact
of looking up blocks in bigger tables. Of course, like I said, I consider
myself a novice and know very little about the mechanics of the
filesystems.
I haven't noticed the systems I have set up with nothing but / and swap to
have any poorer performance than one set up with /, /home, /usr, /var, and
swap. I was a tad disappointed, though, when RH5.2 refused to make my 8GB
drive one partition, saying it was too big.
Dale
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