On 6/18/2010 2:05 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Whit Blauvelt wrote:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.roth@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
Very, dare I say it?, Windows-ish. On the other hand, for an enterprise O/S, I would sorta-kinda assume that /home was being NFS-mounted. Just about everywhere I've worked, it is.
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The piece I've always wanted was for the installer to be able to install on raid1 by default or even a 'broken' raid1 where you could add and sync the matching mirror later. SME server added this feature.