On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:41 -0700, Florin Andrei 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. If you are thinking of performance on a server instead, the bottleneck is often disk head motion so you want things that can overlap activity like logfiles in /var and user files in /home to be on different physical drives as well as partition. For a single user machine it isn't going to make much difference. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
