Re: [PLUG] Hard Disk Partitions

[epike@isinet.com]

my $0.02 opinions: desktop / laptop setup, 1 disk -- no partitioning
necessary (except maybe /tmp).  This also goes for small
disks (< 2 gigs nowadays) since partitioning would
only spread out the empty spaces (lots of smaller free
space instead of just 1 big space).

server - from my personal experience, I more or less
separate them for their functions: /tmp gets a partition,
/boot for boot, /www for web serving, /home gets one, /var 
for logs, my custom /log for logs, /pictures for my digital 
pictures, and /windump for samba "dump" (*that* one grows
fast).  Also remember to scatter the swap partitions to
different disks (that are not ide slaves), with preference
to the fastest disk.   Also, I make it a point not to allocate 
*all* space if I have a large disk (20 gigs is large) for those 
rare times that I need to come up with some space.  Its hard to explain
why this makes more sense to me, it has to do with preventing
a storage area from "overflowing", such as my log partitions,
and it also makes more sense to me to recreate by partitions 
(ie, adding a new disk) if I need to.  In fact most of the 
above partitions are now on software raid.

e pike

> 
> 
> I see so many differing opinions on drive partitioning. I guess this is
> more of a users preference then an operational thing.
> 
> Is there really any reason why one would not just make one big partition
> period? I know the argument about /var - but with logging monitors it is
> unlikely that would  be a problem and I guess you could use quota's to
> control other things.
> 
> The one partition makes it so much easier to do hard drive backups. You
> also always know where stuff is mounted! In one place!
> 
> I have been using hard drive backups for years and I did really have to
> use it once. All I had to do was swap the drive and I was back up. 
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Doug
>


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