Hi Carl,

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
> Please don't take the following criticism personally, it's only my
> part of the discussion and I could be wrong.

That's why we discuss it ;-) I could be wrong either ...

> > a) Standard-Usage (2 HDDs unformatted)
>
> This is not standard at all. I would say that all cases with
> unformatted disks are something only an advanced user sees. Another
> problem is that you specify 2 HDDs as standard. By that definition,
> any laptop would be sub-standard.

My intention was to create a Standard for machines with more than one 
hdd. To my intention machines with only one hdd are discussed within

"[opensuse] Feature wishlist: Comment on  Separate partitions for /root 
and /home directories as installation default"
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...

So "Standard" here means a profile for a machine with two hdds.

> > c) Server-Usage (4 HDDs unformatted)
> >
> >     /dev/hda
> >             /dev/hda1       /boot   100M
> >             /dev/hda2       swap    (2 times RAM)
>
> Why does everybody want swap to be twice the RAM size? There is no
> reason for that. Besides that, having swap on a disk which is mostly
> inactive will help. So moving swap to the disk with /var and /tmp
> makes sense.

Maybe I am blind and maybe my knowledge here is rather old, but someday 
someone said that "a good choice for swap-size is to double the amount 
of RAM". I agree that swap can move to a hdd which is mostly inactive.

> >             /dev/hda3       /       (Rest of hda)
> >
> >     /dev/hdb
> >             /dev/hdb1       /home   (complete disk space)
>
> Add /dev/hdc to /home by using RAID or using it for backups.

Cool :-)

> >     /dev/hdc
> >             /dev/hdc1       /opt    (50% of disk space)
> >             /dev/hdc2       /usr    (Rest of hdc)
>
> Disagree. Useless waste of space. And it will slow down booting.

You see, my knowledge about the FHS is low. Thanks for pointing this 
out.

> >     /dev/hdd
> >             /dev/hdd1       /var    (complete disk space)
>
> Now that is an idea which makes some sense. However, I would split
> that disk into /tmp and /var, each taking half of it.

OK I second that.

> >     /home should always be mounted on the HDD with the most
> >     available disk space to my intention.
>
> Unless $PLACE_TO_DUMP_LARGE_FILES!=/home. I regularly compile
> packages from source and I have /storage for tarballs (and openSUSE
> .ISOs) and /sources for unpacked sources. That keeps fragmentation on
> both file systems low and /home is free of clutter and can be backed
> up easily.

I second that as well ... Now let's see what others have to say.

bis dahin/kind regards

Martin Mewes

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