On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Rick Forrester wrote:
> Many good points, Dave, to which I'd add two more.
>
> (1) It should be somewhat faster when it comes time to fsck a partition when
> they're smaller. The partitioning will also restrict the damage if/when
> something happens to the disk.
Actually, it can make things slightly faster if you put your most-used
directories near the middle of the disk (only avg of 1/4th of disk to seek
over to get to it then), but the way that Linux does disk seek ordering,
it doesn't matter that much.
> (2) I've found it quite useful to set aside an archive partition, which is
> maintained across updates, reinstalls, etc. One of the things I put on here
> is an RCS directory where I can checkin/out critical system configuration
> files as well as development projects.
That's why my /home is a separate partition, as is my /usr/local (which is
where my archive partition also lives). I regularly wipe out my "main"
partition and re-install, generally when I hear about Linux distribution Y
and want to see how Y works compared to Red Hat. It's great having that
ability.
Past that point, mere mortals probably want the rest of the drive as one
big partition.
Personally, I divided my drives into partitions of 500mb size (I have a
1gb drive, a 3gb drive, and a 4gb drive), and regularly move things around
when it looks advantageous. Symlinks are wonderous there -- for example,
when my /opt partition got full I made another partition under /opt for
some of the software that had filled my /opt partition, and then made
symlinks in /opt to where that software actually lived. But then I enjoy
fiddling with things like that -- I'm not exactly J. Random User :-).
Somehow I doubt that most people would enjoy juggling stuff amongst
sixteen 500mb partitions! (And hey, you can always use the 'md' driver to
combine partitions if you like, and have even more fun :-).
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