[CentOS] Upgrade

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:59:45 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> 
> > And as others have said, /home, and maybe /opt, should *always* be other
> > drives, or at least other partitions....
> 
> Kind of makes you wonder why RH's default install is to shove everything but
> boot into one partition these days, doesn't it? In trying to make everything
> immune from the most clueless users - who might (horrors) make a partition
> too small - RH defaults to something other than time-honored old-school best
> practices. Yeah, I never accept the defaults. But I'm not the only guy who
> ever installs RH or CentOS in my shop, and getting everyone else up to speed
> on this sort of thing only annoys 'em. They tend to take it on faith that
> the defaults are sane. They should at least come with a warning label: "This
> is our default, but if you know what you're doing, you really should
> override."

For certain flavors of servers, it might make sense to go for the 'one
big partition' method.  This might also make sense for some *desktop*
installs as well (think: desktops with NFS mounted /home/*).

But yes, the default is pretty dumb.  They do give you the option of
doing things otherwise, unlike *some* O/Ss which don't even give you
that option/choice.

> 
> Regards,
> Whit
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