On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Robert Munro wrote: > Overall, why do you want just one partition for everything? There are > good reasons to partition separate logical drives for different roles.
Because a highly experienced expert recommended this approach. > I agree that you shouldn't need to use a swap partition. I have a few on > various disks but seldom see them in use. I put other disks first. With 4G RAM on a host used by only me (and processes such as postfix), even the most data intensive spatial analyses or similar processes should run in that space. So, swap comes out. > However, I might offer some further comments on partitioning, if I may. Sure! > First, unless you're running a web and/or database server that makes a lot > of use of /tmp for static files, relational query results sets, or > whatever, you shouldn't need a physical /tmp partition at all. Use an > entry in /etc/fstab instead to create an in-memory /tmp at every boot: > none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 I am not currently running an external web server and postgres stores its data in /var/lib/pgsql/data/. However, alpine stores sent mail backups in /tmp and that's where SlackBuild scripts do their work. On average, the 1G /tmp partition is about 45% used. With the new drive's 500G capacity a /tmp partition won't take up significant room. > Second, why don't you want to have a separate /home partition? That's a > good idea for backups, scrubbing deleted files, and carrying forward your > user configuration over software upgrades. Having your own /home > partition keeps a lot of disk activity separate from your system files in > the root partition and applications software which resides in /usr. You probably saw the current partitioning scheme I posted. You and Derek suggest that I stay with the same (or very similar) scheme that I've been using. Makes sense to me, so that's what I'll do (without the swap, however, even though 8M won't be noticed on the drive). Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
