I used to cut them up functionally so that various parts of the system were all limited to a reasonable amount of disk space. Practically speaking, that means the root, /tmp, /var, and /home were on their own partitions. I would typically put /usr on its own, also, simply because most installed software was there and software installation was another functional area. I don't much bother anymore because disks are big enough to handle it and stuff rarely goes haywire nowadays.
All that said, I recently had a site that I manage as a friendly favor go down. Looking at the machine, the 120GB disk was full. Looking around, /home accounted for 95GB of that. Digging in, the web server log - which of course wasn't set up to rotate - had grown to 90GB over the last few years. It's a pretty busy site. Michael On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Rob Huffstedtler <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't know about "less likely" - for me it's more that the average disk >> drive has vastly more space than when it made sense to have "protective" >> partitions. We remember entire systems that had 300 MB drives, perhaps >> less. It was easy to tip the scales at that point. >> >> > There was also the performance argument, back in the day. When HDDs were > slow, having /var and /home on different physical drives made some sense. > If you're going to put it all on one physical volume, I'm not sure what we > thought we were accomplishing. For some of us, I'm sure it was like why > granny cut off both ends of the ham before she put it in the oven. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. [email protected] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
