Disk Partition Percentage

[Joe]

Peter, I'm not clear on what you're suggesting here.  I understand the 
initial partitioning you suggest, but could you elaborate on what sort 
of changes you might be able to make later using fstab and or symlinks 
that would actually make an operationally or performance difference 
without repartitioning.

When does partitioning hurt performance?  I seem to remember you and Bob 
mentioning that when I set up my system.

Also, coming from the very old days when big partitions were bad, I 
still think about making each partition the size it needs to be (and no 
bigger) to make backup/maintenance (such as dump/restore) easier.  Since 
you and others don't seem to think that way, could you briefly touch on 
how you handle reliability/recovery/backup.  Is it mostly a raid/disk 
mirroring issue these days?

Joe

Cyber Source wrote:

> This one is gonna get some response. I like to keep it simple. Alot of 
> guys like to keep separate partitions for /home and stuff. I prefer 
> the way RedHat does for normal desktops and that is with a /boot 
> partition a / partition and a swap partition. Then you only need to 
> dump the /boot and / partitions. Any changes needed later can be made 
> with symbolic links or in /etc/fstab for different locations to 
> different drives, etc. That can be change a hell of alot easier than 
> moving partitions around on a drive, and since changes can be made so 
> easily with sym links and the /etc/fstab file, it kind of makes it a 
> moot point. IMHO
>
> Frank Kumro wrote:
>
>> I am wanting to dump my current disk setup which consists of a swap
>> partition and a / partition. What other partitions would I need to
>> create? (i want home seperate and what else???). Also what percentages
>> should I use for disk space for each partition? I say percentages
>> because I have many machines which I would like to add these changes
>> too however they all vary in size. Thanks again guys!
>>
>>  
>>
>

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