On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:11:38AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 20:35:26 -0500 Thinker
wrote: As mentioned before, there is no pat formula. I do recommend that /home and /usr/local be mounted as separate filesystems because they would not be changed when you upgrade to a new version. In general, the root and /usr filesystems could easily be on the same partition. I usually don't create a separate /boot, but if you set up /boot as a separate partition, you can protect the kernels from problems. And, the /var filesystem is another good candidate for separation. Among other things it contains system logs and spools.
Just to get a few more items on the list: have you considered a software RAID configuration? I've been very happy with my RAID-0 setup with the ext3 filesystem. In my experience ext3 was a tad more stable across crashes than reiserfs (amazing how well you can crash something using wine...:), but there's a lot of threads to be found using Google on ext3 vs reiserfs vs xfs vs ... Regards, Pieter Hulshoff