Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/09/06, Theo v. Werkhoven <twe-suse.e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sun, 03 Sep 2006, by gaf@xxxxxxx:
>
> > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 15:12:00 -0400
> > Paul Abrahams <abrahams@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm about to organize the hard drive on a new system and I'm looking
> for
> > > advice about partitioning it.  The question is: which Linux partitions
> should
> > > be separated out from the root partition?  Candidates
> > > are /boot, /usr, /var, /home (that one for sure), /tmp, and
> /usr/local.   I
> > > can probably make pretty good guesses at the appropriate sizes by
> looking at
> > > my existing systems.
> > I agree with most of the advice given in this thread:
> > /boot - Maybe
> > /home - definitely
> > /usr/local - yes, if you install software other than via RPM
> > /var - sometimes. /var contains log files, spools, print queues and
> > many other files of a volatile nature. In business Unix environments,
> > this is frequently separate for backup reasons and because certain DOS
> > attacks can fill up this directory.  Probably not necessary for you.
> > /tmp - some people make /tmp separate because it contains mostly temp
> > files, and you may want to allocate a small root partition.
> > /usr - I rarely do this even in business since it is not very volatile.
> > Historically, it was mountable because of the small disks used.
>
> The reason I use partitions is to be able to use different
> file-systems (or block-sizes) for different applications. E.g. on a
> partition with mainly audio and video file I don't use reiserFS, but
> XFS. Having different partitions is also a good idea whien you have
> a multi-boot box, or when you want to use quotas.
> Also nowadays I always use LVS for my partitions, just to make later
> re-sizing so much easier.
>
> Theo
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FWIW, I agree with Theo. I also presently have separate /home/$USER/images
and /home/$USER/music partitions, and I am thinking about separating
/home/$USER/{documents,downloads}. You might want to add /opt to the list of
sepate partitions; on my laptop I mount
/home/$USER/{images,music,downloads,documents} over NFS

My £0.02

Jeff.