Tom Robinson wrote:
On 01/04/14 08:56, a b wrote:
> About „the one big partition“ thing:
> It is the system partition. You should add a second data disk for
all your stuff (that will automatically get formatted and mounted at
/data).
I will never understand why people just keep making arbitrary di-
rectories like /data off of /, when there is a very clear speci-
fication which says that /var/opt is for third party data, but it
is very upsetting when I see /data or /srv, or anything else ar-
bitrary like that.
It would be really swell if this were /var/opt by default, like
the filesystem(5) manual page says. That is SVR4 and a Linux
Standards Base filesystem standard. There is absolutely no reason
whatsoever to re-invent the wheel.
I agree. Following the standard makes sense. When installing packaged
software there is an expectation that the system will have enough
space in a standard location (e.g. /var/spool/xxx, /var/lib/yyy,
/var/www, /usr/share, and indeed /opt, to name a few). If a database
is expected to be large, one can allocate appropriately on the correct
filesystem location. With dynamic volumes (LVM, etc.), it is also
possible to re-provision more space later. It's not about allocating a
huge disk and hoping for the best. It's about planning and thinking
ahead as far as I'm concerned.
Don't forget that unlike on a physical system, in a virtualised
environment "disks" can be thin provisioned.
--
Ian.
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