On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:10:39PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:04 +0000, Keith Watson wrote:
Personally I always have separate partitions for /usr, /var, /home, /tmp, /home/[my home dir] and /[my mail dir] because;
Before when I have seen such granular partition schemes someone has often managed to underestimate at least one of the partition sizes and then I think the inconvenience of sorting it out outweighs the benefits.
Would love to hear other thoughts or opinions on this.
Use LVM, then you can make your partitions bigger to suit at a later date (and add new disks and make existing partitions bigger as and when you need it). Of course, I'm not actually using lvm at the moment as all my machines have ancient installs on them, when they get reinstalled they will all be using lvm.
Thanks Adam