Brent L. Bates 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. On the current system we have about 600GB
> of disk space available with only 5% of it used. I'm not worried about
> anything getting filled up any time soon.
> Users who fill up drives get shot and then chastised. :-)
That's probably true for single user machine or special-purpose ones
that handle a few big files, but if you are running services that have
busy logfiles etc. you will end up making other things wait while the
disk head keeps bouncing back and forth between the logfiles and the
work you are trying to do. Putting /var on a separate drive (drive, not
just partition...) to eliminate that head contention always seemed like
a good idea to me. And separating /home from the head(s) handling /tmp
and swap is good for the same reason if you have user activity.
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Les Mikesell
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