At Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:59:45 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 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 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.
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