On 5/23/07, Brent L. Bates blbates@vigyan.com wrote:
I've found over the years any more partitioning than that is just a waste of disk space. If I had more partitions, I usually ended up with one partition with a lot of excess space and others with not enough. It was just easier to have everything together.
Ditto from my experience. I have had problems with *lack* of space in a partition (not lack of physical drive space) way more often than I have had partitions filling up with evil, wasteful data. I have employed single partitions systems for awhile now, using a good NMS package to monitor, graph and alarm on disk space utilization.
The only partitions that I have been known to still break apart are the /var/mysql and sometimes /home, but only because they are often on their own RAID arrays for ease of expansion.
Thanks, Scott