30 Jan
2014
30 Jan
'14
9:10 p.m.
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:
1. /boot -- for compatibility with older BIOSes 2. /home -- for continuity across systems or upgrades 3. /srv -- mostly human-maintained site data
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