Okay, I'll open this up to the general public. I have two disks in my Debian box, and to be perfectly honest, unless you are mounting multiple disks, I find it very wasteful to overpartition a hard drive. Creating partitions like this was a way to use multiple disks within a system, each for a filesystem. For the average user, I find that a single / partition, or perhaps a /boot and a / in the case of RH or Mandrake users, is usually sufficient. I came to this conclusion in painful ways. First, if all the partitions are on one disk, it doesn't make a difference in terms of disk error recovery. If the disk has a bad sector, that's one thing, but how often these days does that happen? Typically, the entire disk fails, in which case having multiple partitions won't make that much of a difference. Am I wrong about this? I don't have much experience with data recovery (and how much would that cost the average user anyway? Is it worth it to get your old email from Gramma?)
Additionally, I found that I was misappropriating my paritions. Too often, I would overuse one partition quickly, and run out of space there, yet only be using tiny portions of my other partitions. Thus, while the disk would only be 30-40% used, I would be at 98% on one partition. Granted, that's the fault of the partitioner, however it's just easier, less complicated, and less likely to cause problems if I just have fewer partitions. Any thoughts on this? I really think that there is very little wrong with creating just a / and swap, or a /boot, root and swap partition in the majority of cases. Regards, Ben Pitzer On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 17:54, Stephen R. Morris wrote: > > > I'd like to create the following partitions: > > /boot > / > swap > /tmp > /usr > /var > /home > /opt > /win [i.e. accessible from Linux and Win98] > > (NOTE: The disk drive is new and is dedicated to Linux; it's the IDE > slave.) > > The question is: Does it matter which partitions are physical (primary) > and which are logical (part of the extended partition)? > > Thank you. > Steve Morris > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
