Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Les Mikesell wrote:
I'm getting more and more inclined to make the whole systems disposable/replaceable and using VMs for the smaller things instead of micro-managing volume slices.
+1
Resource scarcity has changed dramatically over the past couple decades. HD space, for OS-installed files anyway, is about the least of anyone's worries these day.
I only consider separate partitions for three directory trees:
- /boot -- for compatibility with older BIOSes
- /home -- for continuity across systems or upgrades
- /srv -- mostly human-maintained site data
Eight years ago, I wrote an article for SysAdmin, suggesting a straight partition for /boot and root, and lvm for /home and /var, and /usr. These days, I might say RAID 1 for /boot and /, and RAID or not for swap, and another raid partition for everything else: home, other data directories....
At work, we're going to not more than 500G for /, but I'm thinking a lot less: I just rebuilt my own system at home, and gave / 150G, I think, and I have /var there (though I'd put web stuff elsewhere than on /).
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