On 06/08/2015 07:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 6/8/2015 5:08 PM, g wrote:
ie, partition for boot, partition for swap, partition for /, partition home, partition for usr, partition for var, partition for home2, partition for what ever.
that model is not generally recommended anymore, at least not putting /usr on its own partition, there's just too many issues with that nowdays. I don't like putting /var in its own partition either as its all too intertwined with root. the problem with lots of little partitions is your freespace gets fragmented.
i agree with you 100%.
op inferred that i told him to put everything in 1 partition, which i did not. so i was just telling him if he wanted to be 'old school' he could partition what every his heart desired. ;-)
for my 'base' os partitioning is /boot, swap, /, /home.
all additional installs are /, swap, /home. after install if/and install part 2 boot, i restart to base, i log in as root, copy grub.conf into /grub of base /boot as grub.conf-newosname. then i cut/paste lines into my main grub.conf. make notations in 'title' line. next i copy base /root files that customize user root so i have same 'root' operation across all installs. the i reboot to new install and set it up.
/home in a dedicated partition, sure.
only way i have done it from many years back.
/var/lib/${DATABASE_OR_WEB_SERVER}, ditto...
if/when i set up a server.