On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > None of them _need_ to be separate partitions. Historically people > used to do this so that an overfilling /var or /home would not bring > the system to a standstill as / is unwritable. Personally I don't > carve systems up like that at all. You could carve up /home / /etc > /var and /usr but it's not worth it on a desktop/laptop these days in > my opinion.
It's also to do with performance. If you had a large database, say a 20GB Oracle installation, then it makes sense to separate the database files over several physical volumes in order to prevent IO bottlenecks. But that is PHYSICAL rather than logical so if you only have one drive it would be a waste of time. If, however, you had several hard drives I'd seriously consider separating the operating system (/var, /usr, /etc etc.) from temporary storage (/tmp) and the user directories (/home). Sean -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
