[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:19:56PM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > A radical simplification of my above partitioning could be to just split data and programs, so 2 partitions:
> > * /home (symlinks into here for: /tmp & /var)
> > * / (everything else, ie : also /usr & /boot)
> >
> > What does the combined wisdom of this list think ?
> 
> Wouldn't work for me because I need /usr on a separate filesystem,
> so it can be mounted readonly. Yes, I'm paranoid -- I like it that
> way :-)
> 
> For me, I tend to have a /boot and then LVM for the rest of the
> disk, in which I put /, /usr, /var, /tmp, /opt and /stuff (the
> latter I use as a general scratch storage area[1] for things with
> which I'm playing around at any given time).

Tet,

guess you'll enjoy (or more probably not) this thread:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-October/thread.html#144471

Rich.

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