On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:00:49PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > I personally think that one swap and one large / partition > is good for almost every desktop and server. There are some > special cases like wanting to separate a cache partition > mounting with noatime and other performance increasing options > for squid server, but otherwise separating / into multiple > partitions just isn't needed for most people.
I use noatime on all write partitions unless there is a mail client that needs to read atime for biff-like (mail arrival detection) features. Another reason for multiple partitions these days is it can help reduce the time it takes to fsck the filesystems after a really bad system crash. -Vince
