1. Was the EASF gathering a useful/informative/interesting experience, I was tempted, however having gone out early with Alison to my daughters house I got back at lunch time to read my email with a visit already planned for the afternoon.
2. Partitions, I have used, up to now, a boot, root, usr, var, home and archive partitions, (the latter mounted with both the main and the spare/extra installations. I am now considering rearranging my hard disks and having used a partition consisting of only /root and seen no disadvantage, (other than fsck takes longer), can see no real reason for the multi partition installation. Would the Group like to persuade me otherwise? Or at least discuss this perennial favourite
On 2004-07-03 19:09:43 +0100 John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk wrote:
[...] can see no real reason for the multi partition installation. Would the Group like to persuade me otherwise?
Putting /home on another partition seems to be really helpful for data recovery (just deleted a dozen vital files? Next command is "remount -o remount,ro /home" and then get the tools out) and preservation through upgrades. Also stops users filling the system filespace.
Putting /var on another partition seems to be useful for stopping log files filling the disk.
You might not care about the above, though, or be prepared to live with the risks to get the flexibility of having one large partition. You can make arguments for each of the other common partitions, but the ones I can think of seem unlikely for most desktop users.
On Monday 05 July 2004 01:41, MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-07-03 19:09:43 +0100 John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk
wrote:
[...] can see no real reason for the multi partition installation. Would the Group like to persuade me otherwise?
Putting /home on another partition seems to be really helpful for data recovery (just deleted a dozen vital files? Next command is "remount -o remount,ro /home" and then get the tools out) and preservation through upgrades. Also stops users filling the system filespace.
Putting /var on another partition seems to be useful for stopping log files filling the disk.
That's pretty much how I operate. /home on a separate partition is useful for the above reasons. On servers I might try and separate busy volumes onto different disks.
Also filesystem corruption on a crashed machine generally only happens where there were writes so keeping some of the writes (like /var) on a separate partition to the valuable data could potentially avoid a headache later on (mind you filesystems rendered unmountable and unfsckable due to corruption are a pretty rare thing these days)
I think that most of the separate partiton thing is a carryover from when big fast disks were VERY expensive, there probably was a point where each of the top level dirs would have been a different partition on a different physical disk. RAID has it's uses but there are applications where it wouldn't work out so well and it wasn't always available as an option.
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