On 04/09/2011 01:33 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Sooner or later you will learn that the more partitions you have -- the more you will screw yourself due to the inability to create softlinks across partition boundaries. Don't get me wrong, I see great advantages from a backup/imaging standpoint of multiple partitions. But, I can backup regardless of how the partitions are laid out -- but I can't softlink across a partition boundary no matter how bad I "really really want to."
KISS - is the best philosophy. Use only the number that you need. If you need 50 - use 50, if you can really get by with the normal 3 -- then you are better off with the normal 3.
I have to agree with this. I've gravitated to 3 (root, swap, home), for personal machines and 4 for production servers (adding DATA partition for shared mission critical data). I'm well aware of the potential for some process filling the root partition with runaway logging (or some such) but quite frankly that hasn't happened to me since the Pleistocene. -- Explain again the part about rm -rf / -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org