On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:05:41AM -0700, Tim Riley wrote: > I'm not a Sys-admin -- just a long-time user -- but I like this partition > mapping > because /usr, /tmp, and /var are on their own partitions. I see there's plenty > of > room in /usr, but / (root) is filled up (yuck).
As a long time sys admin, the partition mapping is alright as long as you're running a non journaled filesystem. The reasons you like to seperate partitions is due to fsck, and times it takes for a fsck to run. Ie, your system has to fsck the system partitions, and theoretically corruption in one partition will not hinder the boot. However the practice I have seen is this almost never happens. What does happen is if one filesystem is hopelessly corrupted, its likely that the other partitions(on the same drive) are similarly corrupted. I also never timed fsck, but I would think it would take around the same amount of time to fsck 8 GB whether its one big partition, or 8 1GB partitions. In any event, my personal preference is to partition via disks(p1 and p2 on a are swap, and /boot respectively): Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 11G 2.5G 7.6G 25% / /dev/hdb1 71G 20G 52G 28% /usr Again this is my preference, and I run reiserfs, so my fsck times are pretty quick... _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
