On 6/18/2010 2:05 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Whit Blauvelt wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29:32PM -0400, m.roth at 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. > <snip> 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com