Types of partitions

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

Another reason and probably most importnat for servers using scsi drives 
is load balancing.
Bob

Darin Perusich wrote:

> filesystem layout are really personal perference more then anything 
> else. the main reason for breaking up filesystems across multiple 
> mount point are if one filesystem fills up it will not effect the 
> other filesystems and for backups. /, /boot, /usr, /var are usually 
> the filesystem used by the OS itself, /home is user space, /usr/local 
> and /opt for 3rd party apps.
>
> TheCactusKid Cactus wrote:
>
>> *Hi y'all,*
>> *I've got a question. Now I read that there's a /boot, /root, /swap, 
>> /user/local & or /user, (don't really understand the difference?) and 
>> /home. Are there any others I should know about in a typical 
>> installation or is this it? What would be the difference between.... 
>> in the line-up that is....from a Workstation and Server class 
>> install. (as far as types of partitions) What would be the line-up of 
>> either? I know I'm not setting up a server class system but for the 
>> heck of it what would be the line-up? Thanks for all the help.*
>> ** *tHecActUsKid:)*
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