Hi list, I recently stared partitioning my 40Gig Linux system disk as one large '/' partition (with a bit of space on the side for swap partition). SuSE thus obviously creates all the home directories and other folders on the one drive. This is a very Windowsy approach but I find it makes everything simpler to manage. Can anyone advise why I should partition differently and or what the benefits are of splitting partitions across multiple drives. This machine I have mentioned is a personal workstation. I have a server to setup next week and I am busy looking for advice on how I should format it. Please offer any comment that comes to mind. I am trying to get the hang of Linux disk partitioning mentality. I want to consider this from a Linux perspective and not from a Windows perspective. --------------------------------------------- Jonathan Hughes Technical Support Specialist Goodyear South Africa --------------------------------------------- MCSE / MCP Registered Linux User # 362669 ============================================================================== Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying. -Anonymous ==============================================================================
On Tuesday August 3 2004 12:52 am, jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za wrote:
Hi list,
I recently stared partitioning my 40Gig Linux system disk as one large '/' partition (with a bit of space on the side for swap partition).
SuSE thus obviously creates all the home directories and other folders on the one drive.
This is a very Windowsy approach but I find it makes everything simpler to manage.
Can anyone advise why I should partition differently and or what the benefits are of splitting partitions across multiple drives.
This machine I have mentioned is a personal workstation. I have a server to setup next week and I am busy looking for advice on how I should format it.
Please offer any comment that comes to mind. I am trying to get the hang of Linux disk partitioning mentality. I want to consider this from a Linux perspective and not from a Windows perspective.
There's no really "right" way to partitian a drive, buy a number of usable methods. I'd probably do something like: / = 2G /swap = 1G /opt = 2G /usr = 4G /home = 4G /local = balance of drive. I'd use reiserfs for all partitions. There are others who will give you a different config., all workable. Note, the reason I have /local being a large partitian is that I often will install software there, I use a dir. there for compiling software, and also temp. and permanant storage of images and other files. Hope this helps, Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on."
jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za wrote:
Hi list,
I recently stared partitioning my 40Gig Linux system disk as one large '/' partition (with a bit of space on the side for swap partition).
SuSE thus obviously creates all the home directories and other folders on the one drive.
This is a very Windowsy approach but I find it makes everything simpler to manage.
Can anyone advise why I should partition differently and or what the benefits are of splitting partitions across multiple drives.
This machine I have mentioned is a personal workstation. I have a server to setup next week and I am busy looking for advice on how I should format it.
Please offer any comment that comes to mind. I am trying to get the hang of Linux disk partitioning mentality. I want to consider this from a Linux perspective and not from a Windows perspective.
That's exactly how I setup my boxes, even Sun has gone away from the old method of slicing up large disks into small ones. Some say that if you have a corruption, then you are spared, but not in my experience. Most hard drive failures are of the drive itself, a rogue IDE controller or CPU/memory problems, when that happens, everything gets scrambled. I know it's possible with the large drives common these days to never want to grow a partition beyond a fixed size, but I've seen cases both in Solaris and Linux where guys are having to invoke symlinks everywhere because they have run out of space on one partition while there are other partitions with practically nothing on. In my view, the old was was necessary when small disks were all that was available. I've done / and swap for many many years on Linux and Solaris - from the smallest to the largest servers and all corruptions have been due to bad hardware. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 08:15 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Please offer any comment that comes to mind. I am trying to get the hang of Linux disk partitioning mentality. I want to consider this from a Linux perspective and not from a Windows perspective.
That's exactly how I setup my boxes, even Sun has gone away from the old method of slicing up large disks into small ones. Some say that if you have a corruption, then you are spared, but not in my experience.
The ONLY modification I would recommend to the Yast standard is optionally breaking out /home into a separate partition. That way you can do a clean install and never touch your own private home directories. Not strictly necessary, but often nice to have. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:34:47 -0800
John Andersen
The ONLY modification I would recommend to the Yast standard is optionally breaking out /home into a separate partition. That way you can do a clean install and never touch your own private home directories.
Not strictly necessary, but often nice to have.
Similarly, I usually copy /etc- there are often cjanges to config files that one would wish to carry forward. Terence
I haven't been following this thread, so if I copy someone else's advice, please bear with me. If you have Windows on the machine, make a fat-32 partition of maybe one gig or so to use as a transfer between OS's. This is particularly important if the Windows f/s is ntfs. --doug On Tuesday 03 August 2004 15:34, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 08:15 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Please offer any comment that comes to mind. I am trying to get the hang of Linux disk partitioning mentality. I want to consider this from a Linux perspective and not from a Windows perspective.
That's exactly how I setup my boxes, even Sun has gone away from the old method of slicing up large disks into small ones. Some say that if you have a corruption, then you are spared, but not in my experience.
The ONLY modification I would recommend to the Yast standard is optionally breaking out /home into a separate partition. That way you can do a clean install and never touch your own private home directories.
Not strictly necessary, but often nice to have.
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