[Gllug] partition table screwup

[Doug Winter]

Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> I tend to partition my home machine up into slices - I currently have 7.
> I don't really feel the need to resize - most of my space gets allocated
> under /home, and having the others separate makes various tasks (like
> backup) easier. The / partition very rarely changes, and gets backed up
> less than /usr, which gets backed up less than /home. I figure restoring
> the system from an old backup and having to apt-get upgrade isn't that
> much work, but I'm rather risk averse with stuff under /home, which
> includes a lot of personal data I couldn't reconstruct in the absence of
> backed up copies.

Ditto - after a lot of painful disk failures, I always separate /boot, 
/, /var, /usr, swap and everything else.  Depending on the purpose of 
the machine disk space then goes in /data, /var/spool, /var/local, 
/usr/local or whatever.

Certainly for machines you don't care about putting everything 
everything on one partition makes sense, but if there is anything there 
you might want to recover one day, then splitting the disk up can really 
help.

d.

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