On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:54 -0400, Keith Hunt wrote: > Are there any compelling reasons to do that anymore or should I just > make one big partition? I am talking about a couple pretty big SATA > drives in probably a RAID 1 configuration. There is no One Answer To Rule Them All. On my laptop, I just put everything on one big partition. There's no valid reason to piecemeal it on such a system. It's a laptop ferkrissake. Almost the same on my home PC, except on that one I've a separate 200GB partition that's dedicated for multimedia work (DVD authoring, sequencing and sampling, etc.), is formatted XFS and mounted on a special directory. One of the servers I take care of in my spare time: - /home on a separate partition, because that machine has more than one user. Also the IMAP spool for all users is on /home too. So /home is the "users playground" - the Squid cache on a separate partition (too many small files, better keep them separate) - /var/log on a separate partition (ever-growing files, no need to interfere with more static filesystems) - the MySQL database on its own partition (many reasons, you can figure them out yourself) Don't make a religion out of it. Just use your common sense. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
