[SWLUG] partitions

[Steve Marvell]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:52:21PM +0000, Justin Mitchell wrote:

> with maybe an extra one like /music for the obvious usage and to put it
> on a different drive.

This, together with photos and other cross platform data is useful for
sharing between systems on a multi-boot system. Of course, the file
system on this parition would have to be compatible with each
operating system which will use it.

> Most of the problems come from installing new software and toys, most of
> it goes in /usr, which can get quite big can be as big as a few Gb but
> if you dont use that all straight off its a bit wasted but then you dont
> want to be left short later. Then theres all your email, web pages, logs
> and ftp site stuff that goes in /var, which is pretty variable sized and
> can be hard to guess.

I concur, it's much more of a pain to extend partitions later. LVM
solves this, to some extend, but implicitely causes fragmentation,
albeit to quite a small effect.

> So unless you have lots of small disks, or you want to have specific
> expansion limits on certain directories, i think your better off with
> fewer larger partitions.

Indeed.

Steve