On 4/9/2011 8:08 AM, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
Yesterday I bought a new laptop and installed 11.4.
As it is long ago when I installed OpenSuse last time, I followed the suggestion to create only three Linux partitions:
Win7 167 GB (shrinked by the Installation CD) Swap 2 GB / 20 GB /home 260 GB (the remainder)
Normally I would have created a much larger number of Linux partitions, for instance:
Win7 167 GB (shrinked by the Installation CD, as above) Swap 2 GB / 10 GB /usr 20 GB /opt 10 GB /var 5 GB /tmp 5 GB /boot 0.09 GB /srv 60 GB /data 60 GB /local 60 GB /home 52 GB
Does that make sense? Or is it only a waste of space, since the partitions cannot be filled completely?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Best regards, Wolfgang
Is it better to have a pile of 55-gallon drums or a swimming pool? Is it better to have a single tool handle with 50 bits that fit in the end, or 50 dedicated tools? Is it better to wear jeans, or a wool suit, or tights? The answer is whatever you need, you should do. There are many reasons to make a given directory into it's own filesystem, and many reasons not to. I could say "just make one fs, no /boot, no swap" and be perfectly right, for one scenario. And it would be the worst thing in the world for another scenario. I can't say do one big fs, because I don't know what you're actually doing with your box, so, with one big fs, /data or /home or /srv or /tmp may suddenly grow one day and bring the box down. I also can't say make a bunch of separate fs's. Maybe /data is some mission-critical business app that must never die, and the only point of the whole box is just to run that app, and even if /data one day grows beyond expectations and threatens the entire box, those extra weeks, or even extra hours of uptime might be more important than saving the rest of the box from going down by making that app die when it's artificially limited fs fills up. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org