At Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:59:45 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 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 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. > > Regards, > Whit > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/